Hall always spoke as part of a collective rather than as an individual

Evidence

Richard Hoggart famously remarked that Stuart used the first-person singular less than anyone else he had ever met in his life—always preferring to speak as part of the collective “we,” of whichever group with whom he was working. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 24

Categorization

• CANDY: A neat, tweetable biographical tidbit — the least first-person-singular user Hoggart ever met.
• XREF: connects to: Stuart Hall’s intellectual career is marked by continuity beneath its shifting emphases — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 42; Hall’s intellectual work depended on a series of named political collectives.; A political leader can be a collective body with shifting individual spokesmen — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 942 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Stuart Hall’s intellectual career is marked by continuity beneath its shifting emphases — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 42; Hall’s intellectual work depended on a series of named political collectives.; A political leader can be a collective body with shifting individual spokesmen — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 942 (+2 more)