Macron flying the French flag in defiance

Emmanuel Macron appears to have thrown a spanner in the works as the Brexit negotiations crawl painfully to the witching hour. [Or not as the case may be since there’s a suggestion that a No Deal is being seen as a perhaps-temporary phase to teach le Rosbifs a sharp lesson about the economic and logistical nightmare of a summary exit without agreement.]  Anyways in the context of the present stand-off, which I confess I glaze over as it lurches from ‘definite deal within days&rs