If you can have a Poet Laureate write verse for official events, why not commission an artist to record an election? That’s exactly what the British Parliament has done. “The artist, who was commissioned by an all-party parliamentary committee to present a unique portrait of Britain en route to the polls, will spend the next three weeks on the stump with politicians and plans to travel on both opposition battle buses. He is struggling to get access to Tony Blair’s strictly-controlled entourage, however.”