Sam Higson

History/Law graduate 🇬🇧🇭🇰 Waiting since 2020 for people to be held accountable for covid corruption...still waiting ⏳️Liberty and informed consent matter.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@EssexPR Vaccine passports severely damage trust in vaccines and the medical profession. Coercion never leads to trust, this is very obvious. Yet governments across the world appear to have a drive to continue with this idea regardless. It doesn't look like they care.

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

It is pointless trying to understand the contemporary British media complex as ‘media’ in the conventional sense—journalism, reporting, or even opinion. The correct frame is propaganda: mood and sentiment management, with its sharpest tool today being crisis communications.

The dominant technique, visible daily if you still watch, is inversion—systematic reversal. It flips reality: victim into perpetrator, aggressor into defender, truth into falsehood, good into evil. It constructs Walter Lippmann’s ‘pseudo-environment’, an alternate reality in which the public is meant to dwell.

A key subtype is projection, or ‘accusation in a mirror’, neatly summarised by a Rwandan Hutu propagandist in a 1990s manual: impute to your enemies exactly what you and your own side are planning or doing.

When a genuine crisis erupts—such as the racially aggravated murder of Henry Nowak—the first imperative of the machine is to stall, dampen, and defeat the natural eruption of public outrage.

Call it ‘restoring calm’ if you like the euphemism. In practice, it means herding people back into anaesthetised normality so that inversion can resume.

Once the majority has been shamed, distracted, or bullied into silence, the remnant still angry can be ridiculed by the usual chorus—eye-rolling panellists on Have I Got News for You, columnists sneering at those ‘harping on’, and accusations of crypto-racism or worse.

Thus, the brutal stabbing of an unarmed 18-year-old student, the false cry of racism by his killer, and the police reportedly handcuffing the dying boy as he bled out on a Southampton street is repackaged as another ‘knife crime’ tragedy (note Shaban Mahmood’s flaccid parliamentary statement this afternoon)—preferably illustrated with a generic white face in the style of the BBC's so-called reality-based drama 'Adolescence' or the more recent but equally putridly manipulative 'The Capture'.

Real patterns (grooming gangs, crime disparities, two-tier policing) are airbrushed. This is projection at work: the actual sources of predation and institutional failure are recast, while legitimate grievance is pathologized.

The truth? The system enabled both the attack and the immediate inversion of its aftermath and that stands exposed to anyone with eyes and functioning brain by the video evidence. That’s the problem, your own 'lying eyes', that crisis communications has to handle before there can be a return to normal levels of public mood management can be restored.

This is precisely what Dan Hodges is performing when he labels people demanding we talk about the murder ‘scum’ for refusing to respect the family’s wish that their son’s death not be politicised. It is phase-one grunt work in the inversion protocol: shame the angry back into silence so the pseudo-environment can be restored.

Smart enough to know his role, malleable enough to perform it willingly—exactly as Noam Chomsky described the filtering process that keeps the right sort of voice prominent in the system.

The technique still works on some. But it is wearing thin. Every overplayed inversion, every *scummy* dismissal of raw public grief, prepares the ground for sharper identities and clearer grievances against the system itself. Normal people do not remain moderate forever when the machine insists their reality is the problem.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@DanielJHannan @British_Airways Agreed. @British_Airways you really need to improve all your software and technology (website, the app and TV screens on the planes). It's not great, that's an understatement...a shame for the brand you are.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

This means one of two things.

Either everyone needs to grudgingly admit Liz Truss was right about the deep state, or Starmer needs to go.

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Extraordinary that we apparently live in a world where the prime minister just isn't told that his pick for US ambassador had failed security vetting

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@lewis_goodall It all points to a resignation matter. He can't possibly or shouldn't survive.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@darrenpjones Why do you need a digital ID rather than a simple login using the ID we currently have (NI number etc). You don't need to give everyone a new "digital ID".
I don't buy it!

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@NoToDigitalID Palentir turned down Starmer's digital ID contract didn't they?

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@KonstantinKisin Exactly well said

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@davidicke There is. There is plenty of evidence outside the bible. Tacitus, Josepheus...to name a couple. Roman historians in this period are a pretty good confirmation considering they'd have no interest in supporting Jesus and his followers at this point.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@ajcdeane That's actually insane. What on earth.

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

BBC News website @ 5.30pm.
Weightloss jabs affecting Greggs is apparently more significant and newsworthy than tens of thousands of brave and courageous Iranians risking their lives to demand freedom from the oppression of the Ayatollah's Islamic regime.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

And yet the BBC obsesses about an America shooting because it aligns with the Corporation's narrative that the US is a malign state. Even as one of the world's most truly iniquitous regimes - Iran - sets about its bloody work. BBC story selection is grotesquely agenda-driven.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@EssexPR "People live in homes not corporations". What a powerful statement coming from a Republican president.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@WhiteHouse Wow, great policy if it's as it sounds

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@pmddomingos About right. The way the world actually works which they don't really tell you at school.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

@KonstantinKisin Agreed 💯

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

All the bleating about "international law" shows just how completely deluded some of our elites have become.

International law was a pleasant fiction that lasted for a few decades. It was never real and now the world has reverted to its default setting: Great Power politics.

This is why, as a strong Ukraine supporter, I have never talked about international law or called Putin's attack an "illegal invasion".

Laws are based on submission to an overarching authority backed by force. There is no such international authority and even if you view the UN as one, it does not have the ability to use force against those who violate "international law" other than against small countries with weak militaries.

When the US attacked Iraq, the UN did nothing.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the UN did nothing.
If China invades Taiwan tomorrow, the UN will do nothing.

If you cannot enforce a law, it's not a law.

I do not support Ukraine because naughty Vlad broke the rules. I support Ukraine because it's not in OUR interest in the West to have Russia marauding its way through friendly countries on the borders of Europe. It's in our interest for us to be as strong as possible and for our adversaries to be as weak as possible.

President Trump is a realist and a pragmatist. He sees through the fictions other "leaders" cling to.

A good leader advances the national interests of his country. If more Western leaders did this, our civilisation would be in a much better place.

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

Rubio is Cuban.

The Venezuelan campaign was spearheaded by Rubio by all accounts.

You can be sure he’s got his sights on liberating Cuba too.

If they did Venezuela in three hours they’ll probably take about 20 minutes to do Cuba.

I wouldn’t be sleeping easy if I was Petro or Sheinbaum either.

[Sam Higson @SamHigson2]

Yes, thank you for saying the blindingly obvious that liberal establishment types seem to miss or stay silent on.

[Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 @montie]

The FT may not have noticed but Russia and China aren't playing by the rules. From Russia's invasion of Ukraine to China's ripping up of the Hong Kong deal with Britain, the West's enemies do what they want. By insisting that the West abide by "intl law" - which, at the UN, means giving Russia and China the right to veto anything we want to do - we are basically surrendering. No thanks.

[Mike Jones @technopopulist]

Polanski, without even realising it, has laid bare the fraud and absurdity of so-called “human rights law.” Maduro starved, murdered, and tortured his own people while suppressing democracy. Yet when the deeply unpopular Maduro is captured by the U.S., Polanski cries “human rights.”