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No, you can't get married when you're sixteen. And even if you could, 'love' shouldn't bestow you with the franchise.

Paul Holmes asked why the Government plans to lower the voting age while 16-year-olds are not allowed to buy lottery tickets or alcohol.

In this post I look at my book's key findings on the effects of hate speech and the controversies surrounding… The post Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Hate Speech, Its Effects and the Question of Regulation appeared first on Reason.com.

Pat McFadden reacts over concerns foreign powers could use untraceable money to affect British democracy

What a sight to behold

We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny.

Artificial intelligence is transforming “the way we think about the world, the way that we communicate [and] our political culture in a democracy,” Greece’s former prime minister George Papandreou tells Euronews Next.

Sajid Javid says the ‘very basis of our democracy is at risk’ without action to bring communities together

The election of Zambia’s president, Hakainde Hichilema, in 2021 was widely interpreted as a victory for democracy. Zambia had suffered rising repression under former leader Edgar Lungu, but Hichilema promised democratic accountability. However, there are now concerns that his government is promoting constitutional changes that would entrench ruling-party dominance.