Jason

Production, Politics, Places, People 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🌍 Volt // UCL // Head of Learning and animation & video producer

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

8 days after the MP Jo Cox was brutally shot and murdered Farage boasted he'd won the Brexit referendum "without a single bullet being fired"

Farage is scum.

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

What on Earth is this #OpeningCeremony? Why are there three? Why does nobody, including the broadcasters, know what’s happening when? The whole thing seems a complete mess… #FIFA

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@Sam_Dumitriu 36 Leeds - Harrogate - Ripon. No competition, sorry.

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@CuriosityonX Marston-Upon-Dust

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Pope Leo XIV in Madrid: “I encourage you to nurture the process of European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity.”

Wonderful.
A powerful reminder of how beautiful and hopeful the European project truly is.

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[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@PedderSophie The European problem is that these decisions shouldn't be made by intergovernmental meetings of individual leaders. The continent needs a single voice and single point of leadership that is supported by the national leaders. @VoltEuropa @UkVolt

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@uncreativetom I kind of agree, though I think that was inevitable to try to squeeze more value out of a short line. If we had an extensive HS2 network to connect HS1 onto, the priority may have been better focused on intercity services as it is on the French side.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Economist Mariana Mazzucato says Brexit led to businesses leaving the UK, shrank market opportunities and damaged investment.

She tells The Fourcast that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have still not been held accountable for what she calls one of the country's biggest economic mistakes.

Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have both denied lying to the public.

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@SeanM1997 Odd choice to have tried Manchester. Would have made more sense to serve East Midlands (Leicester) and/or Birmingham and Leeds (Bradford/Huddersfield) where the biggest Indian populations outside London are

[Liberite 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @brownliberite]

why does the most prosperous region of England get it's own railcard

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Theresa May, "Brexit Means Brexit"

Right: Sunday Times, "Suspend border checks for Britons this summer, airline tells EU"

Your reminder that on On Nov 30th 2017, when the UK was still in the EU, the UK government (as part of the EU Council, where it still had a seat and vote on legislation) voted to adopt Regulation (EU) 2017/2226, which established the EU Entry/Exit System (EES)

This is a biometric border system requiring the collection of fingerprints and facial images from non-EU (“third-country”) nationals entering the Schengen Area

Such is the love of queues for Brits, that before we left the EU we voted to make queues for Brits wanting to visit the EU 🤷‍♂️

[West Yorkshire Needs A Tram @WYNeedsATram]

🚨 Nationalise the Water Taxi 🚨

Last week, the Leeds Water Taxi announced it was indefinitely suspended.

The @WYNeedsATram campaign is calling for local public ownership of this beloved Leeds institution to protect it for future generations.

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

The excellent RTT (Real Time Trains) website now has an app! It shows how any British train performed up to 2 weeks ago, shows planned rolling stock for any given train, and shows the *planned* platform so you can be positioned ready, ahead of the scrum (includes Eurostar!)

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

The EU understands the power of placemaking. Infrastructure doesn't just make journeys easier, it brings people together. You're far more likely to feel a sense of togetherness with someone 20 minutes away than someone 20 hours away.

[MagellanQuest 🇪🇺/acc @MagellanQuest]

The EU is boring until you realize what it actually builds.
Tunnels under the Baltic. Railways through the Alps. Energy grids across borders. Ports, corridors, bridges, interconnectors.
A continent slowly turning geography into infrastructure.

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@alexwickham @tomelleryrees That seems to correlate with the reality that many parts of Greater 'Manchester' are not Manchester at all. The top 4 areas are the most connected to Mcr; the others are much more independent towns; Wigan is over 25km away.

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@klobalism @charlescdee I'd say the same about several cities on the avoid list; Venice is also amazing, but go in winter when it's quiet. Venice on an August Saturday is hell.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Love this. I should make a version with equivalent sizes of cities. Manchester should include Salford etc...

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

🇬🇧 British Population Visualised.

[Jason @jasonsuresh]

@klobalism @charlescdee it's not that I dislike Paris, I just think that if you're looking for a city to visit in summer it gets really crowded, long queues and can be very hot. Paris is worth visiting but outside of summer