How is voting part of the decision-making process in our government?
People in the media have been focusing on the 'I have never voted' part of his essay in the New Statesman, but that is just their way of deflecting people's attention away from his articulate critique of capitalism.
Ideally, the media would keep their mouths closed during the process or, at the very least, make no projections in the voting part of the process.
For me, giving and voting are parts of the same process.
Many will tell you they have not forgotten the "socialist republic of South Yorkshire" of the 80s, which they feel led to poorer (Labour-voting) parts of Sheffield getting preferential treatment – a divide some say continues today.
I think I instill a passion for living, and I think voting is part of living".
It could also leave it to judges to ban prisoners from voting as part of the sentence they hand down.
But that vote, part of a broader resolution on fracking, was rejected by 391 votes to 262, with 37 abstentions.
Like many observers, Ban Ki Moon, the UN's secretary-general, has been circumspect about the vote, part of an international plan to sort out the country.
The vote — part of Burundi's first national elections since the last of the major rebel groups agreed to enter the political process — essentially became a referendum on President Pierre Nkurunziza after all the other candidates had dropped out.
