More than 90,000 COVID fines have been overturned so far after the Spanish constitutional court declared the draconian 2020 COVID measures unconstitutional.

Spanish news outlet The Objective reports that 92,278 fines have been annulled as of September 3, 2025, following the declaration of certain provisions of the 2020 state of emergency decree, which was in effect during the first COVID-19 lockdown, as unconstitutional.

These penalties only represent the first wave of fines set to be annulled, with many more expected to follow. During the strict lockdown under the state of alarm in 2020, more than 1 million penalties were imposed nationwide, and an estimated 1.3 million people were fined for violating the prohibitive restrictions.

In its ruling, the Constitutional Court determined that certain sections of Article 7 of Royal Decree 463/2020, which pertains to the general prohibition on movement, implied an unjustified suspension of the fundamental right to freedom of movement, rather than merely a limitation. This suspension exceeded the power of the declared state of alarm, the court found. The court determined that such a severe restriction could only have been implemented under a stricter state of emergency, which requires more rigorous parliamentary proceedings.

This ruling now retroactively applies to all penalties issued during the 2020 lockdown, putting a significant burden on the administrative state. The Objective reports that “enforcement has been slow and uneven depending on each territory,” showing that the refunds could take months or years.

The Objective reiterates that the 92,278 cases revoked to date “are just the tip of the iceberg of a regulatory crisis” stemming from the draconian lockdown policies imposed by the Spanish government in 2020.

An Irish palliative care specialist has spoken against assisted suicide, saying death is not a solution.

During Palliative Care Week in September, themed “Living for today, planning for tomorrow”, Dr Regina McQuillan, spoke to the Irish Times about the issues with assisted suicide from an end-of-life care perspective.

McQuillan, who is a palliative care consultant, opposed Ireland’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2024 on behalf of the Irish Palliative Medicines Consultants Association when it was being debated. The Bill has stalled following a change of Government.

McQuillan stated that assisted suicide “creates the idea that for some situations, death is a solution to some problems”, and suggested that it should not be seen as a healthcare issue, but rather as “a societal response to distress”.

The doctor added: “research shows that most people look for assisted suicide or euthanasia when they lose independence”.

She criticised discriminatory attitudes towards disabled people and reasoned that people need help to live well rather than viewing a life dependant on care and support as one not worth living.

“Families up and down the country are being torn apart to deliver profits for big gambling corporations. If we’re serious about addressing this crisis, we must start by banning gambling advertising.”

That's th stark warning from Will Prochaska, the Director of the Coalition to End Gambling Ads,as new figures sahow that Britain is in the grip of a gambling epidemic.

Almost half of adults in Britain gambled in the past month, according to new statistics from the Gambling Commission.

The annual survey on gambling harm revealed that 2.7 per cent of adults in the UK (around 1.4 million people) experience problem gambling, an increase of around 100,000 from the previous year.

It identified slot machines and in-play sports betting – where customers bet on a sports game in real time – as particularly harmful.

Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission Andrew Rhodes said: “This year’s findings deepen our understanding of consequences from gambling and provide crucial insight into risk profiles among those who gamble most frequently.

“We strongly encourage operators to use this evidence to consider the risks within their own customer bases.”

He mentioned a number of measures that have been introduced to curb gambling harm, including light-touch financial vulnerability checks for those spending £150 a month, banning auto-play and slowing the speed of online games, as well as tightening age verification in betting shops.

While the Gambling Commission said that the increase in problem gambling was “statistically stable”, Will Prochaska, the Director of the Coalition to End Gambling Ads, disagreed.

He stated: “The Gambling Commission releases these statistics as if nothing is wrong. But there’s something very wrong when over a million people have a gambling problem and millions more are being harmed.

“Families up and down the country are being torn apart to deliver profits for big gambling corporations. If we’re serious about addressing this crisis, we must start by banning gambling advertising.”

One of the very first laws passed by the Bolsheviks after their seizure of power in Russia was the legalisation of abortion. Since then, an estimated 291 million unborn babies have been murdered in Russia, making the death toll more than ten times the number of Russian lives lost in the devastating Second World War.

While the number of abortions in Russia is now much lower than it was in Communist times, abortion is still legal and widely used in the country. The Putin government has tried various things to reduce the number further, but has fought shy of an outright ban.

Among those stepping into the breach to try to save the Unborn is Natalia Moskvitina, president of Women for Life. Her organisation, which has saved more than 9,000 babies from abortion, is working hard to create a culture of life in Russia. 

“From the very beginning, we simply took each pregnant woman and offered her a psychologist, a doctor for a second opinion, a lawyer, financial assistance, cribs, strollers, basically everything you might need when you find out you’re pregnant,” she says.

“But we realized that it was like fighting windmills. You endlessly look for these strollers and cribs, (and) search for money so that a woman isn’t afraid to be left alone with a baby in her arms,” she added. “But ultimately, laws need to be passed and the medical community needs to be retrained, and we started to focus on that closely.”

Speaking of the abortion mania which swept the world in the last century, she has this to say

“As this (pro-abortion) plague began to spread throughout the world, the mentality of society as a whole has changed. And the great misfortune is that it has especially affected women,” she said. “A woman began to equate the right to an abortion with the right to freedom itself. In other words, if you can’t terminate a pregnancy, it’s as if you’re in slavery.”

“But what was forgotten is that abortion itself is slavery, especially for women, because the psychology of accepting evil changes a woman entirely at her core. And women have become embittered,” she added. “(And) not just women, but society as a whole, and not only Russian society, but the world at large.”

“We are seeking comfort, seeking pleasure, we are mired in hedonism; we are not Christ-centered. And this is a big problem, because we have forgotten that a child, a family … is the clearest marker of happiness.”

Woke entertainment giant Netflix has ended this week having lost an estimated $25 billion in stock value in the latest row over its trans indoctrination productions.

On October 1, Elon Musk encouraged his 227 million X followers to cancel their subscriptions following troubling accounts of the giant streaming platform pushing radical transgender messaging on young children and teens.

In one of many posts calling for the boycott of Netflix, Musk wrote “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids.”  The post has been viewed over 90 million times and has received 1 million “Likes.”

By Friday, “Cancel Netflix” was trending on both X and Google as searches reportedly reached an all-time high.

Britain should re-examine current ‘hate crime’ laws to tackle its “free-speech crisis”, a Peer has warned.

The founder and General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, has been commissioned by Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch to lead a policy review on freedom of expression.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph he called for a new “unambiguous standard” based upon Lord Justice Sedley’s famous remark: “Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.”

The Peer illustrated his concerns with reference to comedian Graham Linehan’s recent arrest by five armed police officers at Heathrow for a social media post claimed to be ‘stirring up hatred against trans-identifying men’.

He branded such examples “tantamount to criminalising certain thoughts, with courts tasked with peering into the minds of defendants to discover what they were thinking while committing a crime.”

Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.Lord Justice Sedley, 1999

Lord Young said: “One of the things I’ll be looking at is whether some speech crimes can be replaced with something more like Sedley’s standard. Instead of stirring up hatred against people with ‘protected characteristics’ being an offence, would it not be simpler – and fairer – to just make inciting violence a crime, regardless of who’s being targeted?”

He also called for non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) to be abolished, saying the “police’s dogged investigation of hundreds of thousands of ‘non crimes’ in the past 10 years when so many actual crimes go unsolved risks turning them into a laughing stock”.

Netflix has lost an estimated $15 billion in value over the last few days after Elon Musk encouraged Netflix’s 226 million subscribers to cancel their subscriptions following multiple troubling accounts of transgender messaging to young children, tweens, and teens.  

The bad news for Netflix began Monday when Libs of TikTok posted a clip from “Dead End: Paranormal Park,” one of several animated series aimed at kids produced by Netflix.  

“This is not ok,” Musk declared.  

When Libs of TikTok issued a second post Wednesday on X highlighting another Netflix series, Musk doubled down, urging parents to “cancel Netflix.”  

“‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ pushes TRANSGENDERISM on KIDS, shames characters for ‘misgendering’ and demands hospital staff refer to and treat a boy as a girl,” Libs of TikTok wrote. 

“INSANITY,” said LoTT. “This show is rated for CHILDREN. CANCEL NETFLIX.”

“Cancel Netflix” soon became the top trending topic on X, as the streaming platform hemorrhaged tens of thousands of subscribers and stock market value.

As of yesterday, Netflix shares have fallen an additional 1.04 % today after plummeting 2.3% on Tuesday and an additional 2.9% on Wednesday. 

“It somehow gets worse for Netflix,” noted America First commentator Rogan O’Handley, a.k.a. DC Draino on X.

“First they release a trans cartoon for kids from a guy who celebrated Charlie’s murder,” Handley said. “Then Elon Musk says he’s cancelling his Netflix subscription which triggers a boycott.”

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