On Contributions pages you’ll find Les’ own pieces on matters of current and topical interest, usually more detailed presentations or articles made at specific events or placed in journals and other publications.
Recommendations include various contributions by others which are highly recommended for their content, substance and competence.
Since Les Huckfield offers all as public resources, you are welcome to “cut and paste” from any of these, but please acknowledge your source.
Throughout all these pieces, as much as possible, citations, such as (Huckfield,2021) and sources, such as Huckfield, L. (2021). How Blair killed the co-ops. Manchester University Press, are included.
On Contributions pages you’ll find Les’ own pieces on matters of current and topical interest, usually more detailed presentations or articles made at specific events or placed in journals and other publications.
Recommendations include various contributions by others which are highly recommended for their content, substance and competence.
Since Les Huckfield offers all as public resources, you are welcome to “cut and paste” from any of these, but please kindly acknowledge your source. Thank you.
Throughout all these pieces, as much as possible, citations, such as (Huckfield,2021) and sources, such as Huckfield, L. (2021). How Blair killed the co-ops. Manchester University Press, are included.
This is a presentation made to the West Midlands Coops Member Education Group on Thursday 23 February 2023 ACTUAL West Midlands Presentation
During the Conservative PM selection process, both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss constantly claim to be the heirs of Thatcher. But they don’t seem to understand that the period of Margaret Thatcher and John Major in Government from 1979 to 1997 was unsuccessful in challenging or ameliorating any of Britain’s economic and social problems. Using […]
21 External Communications LHR Site Note.N13 This note provides a brief summary and update on Leslie Huckfield’s new book “How Blair Killed the Coops”, for which the online launch with Owen Hatherley and John McDonnell MP is at 1900 on THU 18 NOV 2021. This is the Eventbrite Link to sign up for the launch. […]
This is the paper I presented on FRI 01 OCT 2021 to the Launch Conference of the Scottish Centre for Social Justice at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. This contribution projects that many now writing about an emerging new 21 ACTUAL SCSJ COVID and Communities.O01 period of ‘post neoliberalism’ are really describing higher level activity […]
This Note sets out a framework for a unified Third Sector or Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector (VCSE) – often called the Social Economy – offering a community focus during and after COVID and climate change Above all, for Scotland this cannot be the kind of mainstream or routine economic recovery of the 1970s, […]
Despite the Scottish Parliament Elections, with a 71 to 57 majority for Independence, almost no progress has been made. This contribution gives some pointers to what should be happening. Please click on the link below: 21 ACTUAL Independence Article.Y04
There’s a favourite topic of conversation where people are asked what they’re going to do “post COVID” or when “life gets back to normal”. I find difficult the relevance and significance of either of these phrases. Many of us who have been working from home are probably experiencing a better COVID than those who must […]
I am pleased to be working on a joint research project “Comparative Analysis of Ireland’s and Scotland’s Approach to the Development of National Social Enterprise Policies” with Deiric O’Broin and Gerard Doyle, Professor of Public Policy Practice and Lecturer at Dublin City University, which we hope initially to be published as an article in Administration, […]
Based on previous experience and current active membership of the European Parliament Former Members’ Association, following the confirmation vote for Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission, I wrote the attached piece on how the European Union works in theory and actual practice: European Democracy: a Note on Theory and Practice
Following interest in my book on “How Blair Killed the Coops”, which includes considerable reference to European Funding and its influence, I was asked to submit a more detailed note for wider information. My book can now be found in the Library of the European Parliament. How Blair Killed the Coops Note for FMA
This is my online presentation at 2023 ANSER-ARES Conference ( Conference of the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research) on MON 29 MAY 2023 at the University of Toronto
This is the presentation I made online to the China Association for Socially Responsible Leadership 3rd Annual Symposium on SAT 20 MAY in Shanghai. There’s plenty more on PRME and the SDGs where this came from, so please use the ‘Contact’ page to get in touch. China Association for Socially Responsible Leadership Shanghai.
This is my presentation made to the Open University Scotland Research Seminar on Monday 18 April 2023. It’s rather shorter than other presentations to make space for another presentation Open University Research Seminar For an updating note on my book “How Blair Killed the Coops”, please see Updating Note on “How Blair Killed the Coops”
Colleagues have been asking what’s been happening since the publication of my Manchester University Press book in November 2021. This is an “updating note”, which I circulated in April 2023.
This is a presentation made to the West Midlands Coops Member Education Group on Thursday 23 February 2023 ACTUAL West Midlands Presentation
Presentation to ‘Which Way Forward for Coops?’ Conference, Manchester Friday 21 October 2022 ACTUAL Which Way Forward
Emily Maitlis did us all a big favour on Wednesday 24 August in her MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Festival, by exposing the ongoing Tory subborning of the BBC. For those of us who watch Channel Four and won’t watch BBC News, none of this is new. But the full text below of what she […]
If you’ve had COVID, you will know it can be pretty serious. Many of us, especially teaching and meeting in poorly ventilated and crowded rooms, especially with most folk not wearing masks, believe that we should bring back some previous restrictions. If you find this difficult to accept, please look through this highly reputable research […]
This is a significant and quite brave piece for the Higher Education Policy Institute by Mary Curnock Cook, who was Chief Executive of UCAS (the universities’ ‘clearing’ system) from 2010 to 2017. After leaving school at 16, Mary has worked her way across the UK higher education system. So she knows her trade! Following serious […]
The Institute for Fiscal Studies is not always a very progressive organisation, but its latest research on education and inequality is worth reading, espcially comparing the UK with other European and OECD countries. This is the introduction from the Institute’s media release: “Education levels have risen over time, in the UK and internationally. The share […]
This is Kenny MacAskill’s piece in the “Scotsman” on THU 30 JUN 2022 about Les Huckfield’s book “How Blair Killed the Coops”. Les is grateful to Kenny for his careful consideration of some detailed argument. This is the link to Kenny’s Scotsman piece: How Tony Blair killed off co-operatives as he pursued his ‘third way’ […]
Chris Bambery’s excellent review of David Brodie’s “First They Took Rome” is a most important contribution. Chris’ review and David’s book need to be read and appreciated by all who don’t understand Italy’s export of right wing populism.
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