Day 1,825: humiliation, unravel

Instead, Mr Macron’s Ensemble alliance is heading for humiliation on June 30th: one analyst puts its chance of forming a majority at 0%. As a result Mr Macron’s reforms could soon begin to unravel—and that reflects a problem for centrist incumbents everywhere.

Macron has done well by France. But he risks throwing it all away

Artwork of the day 
Christian Descending into the Valley of Humiliation
Samuel Palmer
Date: 1848
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day 
humiliation: the feeling of being ashamed or losing respect for yourself, or an occasion when you have this feeling:
unravel: (of woven cloth) to separate into threads, or to separate the fibers of a thread, rope, or cloth:

Quote of the day
“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club