Mark Andrews: What will happen if you give 16-year-olds the vote, and why Crazy Chick Charlotte is tempting me to go to book festival

Anyhow, this week it was announced that Charlotte Church and Nish Kumar had pulled out, because of a tenuous link between the festival's main sponsor and Israel. And if that's not a good enough reason to go along and lend your support, I don't know what is.