Les drafted this presentation for the Stir to Action Festival (Tuesday 12 July till Thursday 14 July 2022, at Selgars Mill New Economy Centre, Cullompton, Devon on Thursday 14 July 2022. Unfortunately, through testing positive for COVID, he was unable to attend. Stir to Action Presentation, Selgars Mill New Economy Centre, THU 14 JUL 2022
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’ […]
YouTube of University of Limerick Presentation Download the presentation slides below: University of Limerick PowerPoint Presentation
This is Les’ piece in Labour Hub on WED 19 JAN 2022 about his book “How Blair Killed the Co-ops”, published in November 2021 by Manchester University Press. This is the link to Les’ contribution: New Labour Reinvents Social Enterprise for the Public Service Delivery Market
To widen the arguments from the book launch, please kindly read through A New Movement for Cooperation
YouTube of Book Launch Download the presentation slides below: PowerPoint Presentation from Book 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, […]
Social Investment, Social Impact Bonds and Public Service Delivery
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