Tom Forth

CTO and co-Founder @TheDataCity. Did data @OpenInnovates and @imactivate. I block anons for even the slightest rudeness.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

@xvrmdf You really should have mentioned that it was in Edinburgh, a city that you've mentioned before is one of the most prosperous in the UK. That would have helped people put it into context.
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oh wait you did.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Important, I think, to note how low the educational attainment rate is in much of the blue banana of high innovation and high productivity within Europe. Casts a lot of doubt on what I fear is still mainstream UK policy of trying to use yet more education to stimulate growth.

[Pau @Caan_Pau]

@MagellanQuest Here it is the real map, directly from Eurostat. Without manipulation

[Tracy Brabin WY 🌹 @TracyBrabin]

The first with so much more to come….#Weaver

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Remembering Middlesbrough-born football manager Brian Clough, who died on this day 2004. ‘Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.'

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

"I will take each individual case as it stands - but the economic case for Skelton Grange is really powerful. It's about £4bn of investment in our communities; a thousand jobs." > 👑 (also a 👑 for Leeds City Council who I think remain the decision makers on this stuff).

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

"The Mayor of West Yorkshire has backed plans to build a data centre on the outskirts of Leeds." > 👑 https://t.co/tfEcNOf8fl

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

@PradyuPrasad @GjMcGowan You are like little babies to me.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

It was actually BetFred. But same.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

I'm pretty pro the freedom to gamble. But I gipped at "Every [Bet365 betting] shop we close leaves a hole in its community".

[Edward Gibbon @EdwardEGibbon]

@thomasforth A Proustian taste of blood donation.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

The bit that makes me most positive about this is the minimal involvement of the UK government. The promoters of the scheme want to fund it through a toll, and that should be easily achievable. Just need UK gov. to get out of the way really. https://t.co/szyzfWPEXq

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Fantastic to see plans by @MichaelDnes1 et al. at Future Works for a new motorway and fast railway between Manchester and Sheffield progress. Especially great to have such big local political backing for it. Would be such a boost to the Northern economy. https://t.co/dsaTyw2kLd

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Has anyone ever had this squash in a context outside of NHS England?

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

@philjoneswired I tiger never stole my fish and chips. Whereas a big flock of seagulls,...

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

No-one feels good after getting mauled by a tiger.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK https://t.co/IsXhwqOXdG

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

As a bonus. I went to a bar after baseball in South Philadelphia. Very friendly. Asked the barlady if the smoking was, strictly, legal. And to my surprise she produced the licence. You can still smoke in some bars in Pennsylvania. Because free. Conditions and paperwork are huge.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

The big shock that stays with me from ten days in the USA is the same as the first and only other time I was in the USA. It really is a Federal Republic. Really really really. States and places are in charge much more than the central government in a way that astonishes me.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Another example. Crossing a road. From Baltimore, Washington DC is just 35 miles. Philadelphia is just 75 miles. Yet you cross the road very differently in the three cities. Downtown Philadelphia has no walk signs, pedestrians rule. Washington DC, the law rules. Baltimore, WTF?!

[Dr Chris Burden 🐺 @WulfrunianChris]

Is there an operational reason that’s totally beyond my understanding why CrossCountry run such short trains and that they’re never coupled.

I’ve never not know the stretch between Birmingham and Manchester be absolutely rammed and yet every time it’s a comparatively tiny train.