that was julian glover, who is also director of the wolfson economics prize, which this year is lookingas per usual fewer young people voted than any other age group — following an established trend. and the chasm was at its deepest between the youngest and the oldest — so a3% of 18—2as put a paper in the ballot box, as against a whopping 78% of over 65s. the writer and satirist armando iannucci has become so exercised about this disconnect, that he's been trying to brew up a twitter storm, with a campaign to get three million 18—2a year olds to register to vote before the deadline of may 22nd. one of his tweets ran thus: "i beg you on my gnarled and brittle knees, register to vote, then vote." i spoke earlier to the man who likes to make a mockery of politicians about his desperation to get young people to vote for them. i asked him whether he really believed that young people held this election in their hands. i think it's important that young people engage as much as possible in the election, because if they don't, they lose. if you look at how politics has conducted itself over the