British politics has been advancing for decades like a Shakespearean comedy of errors: the characters change, but the pattern repeats. Long before Brexit, which will be a decade next month, Westminster was already chaining together cycles of confusion, miscalculated maneuvers, and governments trapped in their own mistakes. From 1974 –with two general elections, the fall of the conservative government, the winter of discontent, and the unions on war footing–, to the parliaments without an absolute majority in the 21st century, passing through the illegal suspension of Parliament in 2019, the British system has shown a recurring fragility that contrasts with an image of impeccable solidity.

Sacrilege in England. The iconic statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, opposite the Palace of Westminster in central London, has been vandalized again. The Metropolitan Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of criminal damage with racial aggravating circumstances, after he painted pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist graffiti on the bronze monument that stands in the heart of Westminster's political center.