Macron’s Olympic delusion
All the world’s a stage and the Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris today is the greatest stage so far for the comedian president. Emmanuel Macron has declared a political truce amidst the political nervous breakdown of France, so that his show may go on. The spectacle starts at 6.30pm (7.30pm local time in Paris). It will culminate in Macron declaring the Games open and the lighting of the Olympic cauldron. The president has ordered Thomas Jolly, his personally selected director, to outdo London 2012. France doesn’t have a real government. There’s no calculus showing how one might even be possible in a fractured new National Assembly of more than a dozen factions who loathe each other.