Hope for another hung Parliament grows

The Observer prays for more tactical voting:

Naomi Smith, Best for Britain’s chief executive, said: “This election is on a knife-edge, and, if enough Remainers hold their nose [bring back Toynbee's peg] and vote for the candidate with the best chance of stopping the Tories, we’re heading for a hung Parliament and a final-say referendum.”...[However] ...On Friday, former Tory and Labour prime ministers John Major and Tony Blair attended a rally on tactical voting.[which might stop it] 

Well, they have held their noses very well while buying cheap English strawbewrries picked by underpaid European labour, so there should be no problem with voting. 

The Observer editorial 'resonates' with the news as ever:

He has been prime minister for less than five months, but Boris Johnson’s record in office is dire. His Brexit withdrawal agreement paves the way for, at best, a bare-bones free trade relationship with the EU that would necessitate a customs border in the Irish Sea and would impose more of the same economic pain Britain has suffered through a decade of austerity, while turning us into a rule taker. [a curious combination of objections] 

The main ideological theme of the week might have emerged a bit more clearly:

the worst of it lies in the casual indifference a prime minister has shown to a peace process that ended decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland

 And there is still the usual stuff, which I suspect is even more important to the Observer:

Long happy to deploy racist stereotypes and dogwhistles when he has judged them to benefit his career, he shrugs them off under questioning as irrelevant relics from the past. His hypocrisy is breathtaking: compare his vile comments on single mothers with his evasiveness about whether he takes parental responsibility for the child he fathered while married to someone else. His rank incompetence at the Foreign Office has had tragic consequences for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who languishes in an Iranian jail....On Thursday voters have the chance to strip power from a dangerous charlatan.

An echo of the Guardnia spin yesterday:

Many of our readers will be grappling with their consciences about voting for Labour. This is a sign that they take racism seriously, not that they care little about child poverty and homelessness.

But it is still Brexit that dominates:

we urge our readers to exercise their judgment and, as their conscience allows, vote for the pro-referendum, progressive candidate most likely to deny Johnson the opportunity to wreak existential damage on our country.

If it goes mammaries aloft, there are still great issues for npb metropolitans to focus on:

Dreaming of a green Christmas: make your own sustainable tree 

Artists consulted include: 

Robi Walters ...the artist in residence at Aston Martin [the car company!]

“I want to make waste [not exhaust waste obviously] beautiful in a simple, meaningful way,” he explains. “Getting the next generation involved is a big part of that. If I can inspire those who see my art to create something similar – to look at their rubbish in a new light – then that is fantastic.”...“The shapes in my work are inspired by sacred geometry,” [the sublime curve of a fuel injection inlet?] Walters explains.“The shape of the petal is of two overlapping circles, which for me represents renewal or creation.” [Groundbreaking stuff then]  By laying these petals one on top of the other, Walters achieves that elusive state of flow: “I have to not think about what I’m doing. As soon as I do, it becomes a struggle.”

Voters should overlap circles and stop thinking as they enter the polling booth.