 Tamesis A Collection of Riverside Verse Published in November 2025 |  The original book published in 1995, and that helped launch the campaign to lift the military gay ban. |
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 30th Anniversary Edition of the book with an updated history about the the lifting of the ban in January 2000. |  The book that launched the LGBTQ+ Armed Forces Charity. |
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Writer, Poet and Activist
LBGT+ and Other Stories...
Tamesis, A Collection of Riverside Verse, Ed's first poetry collection is published by Chiselbury. It is available from bookshops or online here.
Ed was the Founder of the Armed Forces Legal Challenge Group, established in 1994 to fight the discriminatory ban on lesbians and gay men serving in the British Armed Forces. The campaign proved successful when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the ban was illegal in January 2000. He received several awards for this successful human rights campaign, and Ed's role in the history of the campaign is available in Lord Etherton's independent review of the ban, available here. In 2024, Ed became Chair of the Fighting With Pride, the LGTQ+ Armed Forces Charity.
His book, We Can't Even March Straight​ (Vintage), was published in 1995. The 30th Anniversary Edition (Chiselbury) was published in 2025, and is available here.
​Ed was a contributor to Fighting With Pride, published by Amazon in January 2020. He was the author of Brexit and the UK Television Industry (2017) and the Brexit Broadcasting Licensing Directory (2018).
Ed wrote and presented a range of programmes for BBC Radio 5 Live in the series Ed Hall Investigates, winning a Sony Radio Award for News and Current Affairs in 1998. The BBC News website improbably still carries details of his expose of a secret world trade in genetically-modified pigs click here.
Other radio series written and presented by Ed Hall include The First 100 Days (of the Blair Government) for BBC Radio, and Encyclopaedia Historica for the BBC World Service.
In 1991 and 1992 Ed produced television programmes for Channel 4 Dispatches and Thames Television on drug smuggling at Heathrow Airport, and on British mercenaries fighting in the former Yugoslavia.
As a writer, Ed's work has appeared in a very diverse range of publications including the Independent, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and the Evening Standard.
He is also a poet and diarist, publishing occasionally on-line and on social media.
He is a regular commentator on broadcasting, business and technology as well as LGBTQ+ issues, and contributes occasionally to Conservative Home.