I don't think I've ever put a magazine issue to bed knowing that it will publish just days before a general election. In the past there has usually been a couple of weeks between publication and the polling stations opening. But this time there's an – undoubtedly irrational – feeling that everything we've written in the publication will be instantly cancelled out by a change of administration the minute it rolls off the press.
So there's a fair chance that you will be reading this after votes have been cast and a new government installed – in which case our article on pages 24 and 25 giving a sober and impartial assessment of each main party's manifesto pledge will be the proverbial fish-and-chip paper.
However, if the magazine has arrived on your desk before the polling stations have closed, turn to page 24 immediately and read it carefully!
This year's general election is the most important since 2010 (and we've had a few). After 14 years of increasingly chaotic government, it looks almost certain to usher in a new Labour administration and kick the Tories into the wilderness. Labour is promising change, though many of its policies don't look so different from the Tories'. We all know about the value of election promises, but Kier Starmer has a point: things cannot go on as they are.