Day 1,831: axiom, grave

An axiom of democratic politics is that voters grow tired of incumbents. When they do, they will turn to the alternative. In France, as elsewhere, that alternative could do grave harm.

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

Artwork of the day 
Christ in the grave
Jacopo Bellini
Style: Early Renaissance
Genre: religious painting
Media: oil, panel
Location: Castelvecchio Museum, Verona, Italy
Dimensions: 21 x 35 cm

Word of the day 
axiom: a statement or principle that is generally accepted to be true, but need not be so:
grave: seriously bad:

Quote of the day
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes