About Richard Hall
I don't use facebook -and I never will. Alicia, my long suffering partner, says I'm an anti-social git (she does use fb so you can find her on there if you like that sort of thing). I plead guilty. But I have owned this domain name for many years, so anyone who wants to and can manage to use google can get in touch. But before you do please reflect on this. If you used to know me in a previous phase of our lives but we haven't spoken for many years there is probably a good reason for this. This certainly applies to almost everyone I met during many miserable years in the Reading Labour party.
My email adress remains 'myfirstname@thisdomain'.
At the present time my working days are taken up with my micro business Red Kite Electrical. Most of my leisure time I spend sailing. Contemporary politics is not a major preoccupation. Indeed the comical pretend fight between Labour and the coalition leaves me wondering why I ever bothered quite frankly.
In 2006/2007 I went back to college, Reading University to be exact, to study for a History Masters. My dissertation topic was entitled 'The decision to leave. What factors influenced Bevin and the Labour Cabinet's 1947 decision to terminate the British Mandate in Palestine?' which enabled me offer a modest contribution to the historical scholarship of how, and more importantly why, the UK got out of Palestine, and the context in which the Zionists managed to steal the greater part of Palestine from its native inhabitants. Did you know, for example, that the United Nations vote that effectively gave the Yishuv the territory of Israel 'proper' only secured its two thirds majority because of Soviet support for the position of the United States? What was Uncle Joe up to? Well you'll have to read my dissertation to find out.
You can read my dissertation on request, to me at the address below. IMHO my dissertation should be required reading for Mark Urban (Jeremy Bowen etc etc) and all the other ludicrous talking heads the BBC employs to spout off about the middle east who appear to believe that the history of this issue began in 1967.
For now let us leave the last words to the great Ernie Bevin, Foreign Secretary in the Attlee government, a man whose huge contribution to the history of the UK in the first half of the twentieth century has been largely forgotten. Founder of the modern Transport & General Workers Union, Churchill’s wartime Minister of Labour and finally Foreign Secretary. No small achievements for a man who started out as a delivery boy. My research gave me a new appreciation of the man's enormous contribution to his times. His humanity and perceptive analysis shone through from his papers in the National Archive (the same papers BTW, also revealed he couldn't stand the sight of Zionist supporter and the original clever dick, Richard Crossman, another point in his favour), and particularly from Cabinet Secretary Norman Brook's recently released hand written minute books. I was lucky enough to be amongst the first to read these (before, I believe, the BBC who claimed to have had exclusive access in the trailers for the recent Radio 4 programme Attlee Confidential);
'The majority proposal is so manifestly unjust to the Arabs that it is difficult to see how we could reconcile it with our conscience'
EB commenting on the vote mentioned above, in Brook’s minute book.
Recent developments
2009 proved to be a very exciting year -a bit too exciting. Alicia started a new job with Condor Ferries and is based at their head office in Poole. As a result we made a forlorn attempt to relocate ourselves to Poole. Thanks chiefly to the appalling behaviour of Poole Borough Council in relation to school places we had to abandon our attempt to relocate our family to Dorset. So I and our younger son are back in Reading, with Alicia based in the pretty little town of Wareham Monday to Friday.
Anyway digressing slightly and to show that just because one is a tradesman, it does not mean one is immune from employing total clowns. You will all be able to see pictures of the muddle left by this idiot around our Wareham house, who is now trying to recover his labour charge through the courts. Good. I'm itching for a row!
Richard Hall MA
December 2011
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