Tim Harcourt

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I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS

#Footynomics #NT series now streaming! What is the pathway to the AFL for the new Northern Territory team? I talk with AFL NT taskforce chair & Richmond legend Sean Bowden streaming now on Ticker & The Airport Economist channel tickernews.co/shows/airporte…

@thefootyalmanac Thanks for your support 🏉

Footynomics Northern Territory has been launched and episodes will be available to view on 'The Airport Economist Channel' in the coming weeks. footyalmanac.com.au/almanac-footy-… @thefootyalmanac @TimHarcourt #Footynomics #AFLNorthernTerritory #TheAirportEconomist

@FredPawle Thanks Fred I usually publish with conventional publishers but was curious about how it worked with Amazon

@TimHarcourt It’s not simple, Tim! But you do get to keep the proceeds. There are companies that do it for you.

Few people epitomised Australia’s irreverent culture during the heady 1980s and 90s more than artist, cartoonist and raconteur Bill Leak. He was both erudite and outrageous, as comfortable among the glitterati as he was among the down-and-out. In the late 2000s, however, he noticed Australia changing. He started to publicly warn that censorship, identity politics, Islam and environmentalism were destroying the culture he loved so much. The intelligentsia, including some of his closest friends, scoffed. Friendships were lost. Now, almost a decade after his death, his worst fears are materialising. Just as he predicted, Australia is in rapid decline. If Leak were still alive, he’d be asking, who’s laughing now? Buy my biography of Bill here: amazon.com.au/Die-Laughing-W… And if you love it, please leave a review on Amazon. It would help me enormously.

@FredPawle Thanks Fred will have a look

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@PaulEmbery @NickCohen4 Wrote a great autobiography “the time of my life “

Denis Healey, one of six formidable candidates in Labour's 1976 leadership election, was a grammar school boy from Yorkshire who achieved a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the second world war (including as beachmaster at the Battle of Anzio), was mentioned in dispatches, demobbed as a major, spoke several foreign languages, and was a gifted amateur painter and pianist and all-round aficionado of the arts. My piece examining the decline in calibre of British parliamentarians. paulembery.com/p/titans-and-p…

@football_roos @tickercotweets Andrew Demetriou is interviewed here: tickernews.co/afls-expansion…

@TimHarcourt @tickercotweets Most welcome. Full video here. tickernews.co/why-the-northe…

The Northern Territory’s bid for an AFL licence is explored on Footynomics with Professor Tim Harcourt examining whether the Northern Territory could become the competition’s 20th team on Ticker News.

Ticker revives FOOTYNOMICS to examine NT AFL ambitions tvblackbox.com.au/page/2026/05/1… via @TV Blackbox

@football_roos @tickercotweets Thank you Kevin

@tickercotweets @TimHarcourt examining whether the Northern Territory could become the competition’s 20th team on Ticker News.

@thefrontbar7 Great to see older brother Greg on the show too ! @NorthAdelaideFC

Two of the most talented players the game of Aussie Rules has ever seen. It’s a huge welcome to Adrian and Gilbert McAdam! #TheFrontBar | Wednesday | 8.30pm AEST 📺