Day 1,996: gut, grubby, political compact
ON DECEMBER 7th, 50 heads of state and government will take their places to celebrate the reopening of Notre Dame, Paris’s 12th-century Gothic cathedral, gutted by fire five years ago but now restored with astonishing speed and loving skill.
In a grubby political compact Marine Le Pen, boss of the hard-right National Rally (RN) party, joined forces with a left-wing alliance dominated by a former Trotskyite, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to squeeze the life out of France’s centrists.
Artwork of the day
After Gutting the Trout
Godfrey_BlowDate:1996Style:StuckismGenre:genre painting
Word of the day
gut: to destroy the inside of a building completely, usually by fire:
grubby: dirty: If you describe an activity or someone's behaviour as grubby, you do not think that it is honest, fair, or acceptable:
political compact: Compact as used in politics may refer broadly to a pact or treaty; in more specific cases it may refer to:
Quote of the day
“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof