Possible Clues:

• For one in society to lose one's head like this is enough to make one glow
• From this you get the heat of the end of one in society
• It's got spark
• Dying piece of coal fire
• The fire was almost gone out of one in society, now that he's lost his head
• Red ash
• Material in dying fire
• Glowing or smouldering piece of coal
• Glower, as politician dismisses leadership
• Smouldering piece of wood or coal