Here’s some advice I received years ago for this very situation: if you’re struggling to piss due to stage fright, imagine pissing on the head of someone you hate. Really imagine it. Imagine micturating all over their hair (or their scalp), the aghast expression, then them spluttering while trying to mouth ‘What the fuck?’ it does work. I don’t know why it works - and I most definitely don’t want to know - but it does work.

You’re all most welcome :)

It’s a logical conclusion though?

Yes, exactly. Let’s also ban nature documentaries along with slides, bikes, Gregg’s sausage rolls and clowns. Anything that requires an iota of parenting should be verboten from the younglings.

I mean, I just listed an example of voting making a considerable geopolitical difference. Okay, yeah, voting most likely isn’t going to usher in an age of anarcho-syndicalism any time soon but telling people not to engage with the democratic process because it ‘doesn’t matter’ is a bit disingenuous.

The Green Party in the UK recently won a by-election in a fairly small constituency called Gorton and Denton, to the shock of both Labour and Reform.

If Reform had won, I guarantee the UK’s response to Trump declaring war on Iran would have been significantly more in line with what Trump expected: i.e. let’s get the bombing party started.

Voting does matter. Why do you think so many bad actors are always trying to undermine it?