While training to the higest grade in post graduate broadcast journalism in Portsmouth, Jason benefited from tuition directly delivered by the inspirational print journalist, David Kett, who co-authored materials specially commissioned by the National Council for the Training of Journalists at that time. But the genesis of his interest in the contemporary royals was spurred on by his mother who cast an almost obsessive but keenly analytical eye over 'everything royal' during his childhood, during a period when  silver jubilee street parties in 1977 for Queen Elizabeth II seemed a very big unifying phenomenon throughout the UK with little sign of overt republicanism, except for the terrible troubles haunting Northern Ireland at this time.

Spurred on by current threats to free speech, he recently became the founding Director of the Defend UK campaign for fairer free speech. He also writes as an independent, multi–subject news commentator.