AudreySuffolk MBE

I am proud to be a free speech, free association, freedom of belief ( and lack of belief) universal human and equality rights bore. Yes it means defending some horrible and even offensive stuff. But the authoritarian, undemocratic alternatives are way, way worse .

Self portrait with headband Lee Miller

I didn’t take any pictures but the Lee Miller exhibition of her photography at Tate Britain is outstanding. I’m definitely going back as so comprehensive

Activist tells conference meeting: Hostile rhetoric under Labour has left me feeling hounded and unsafe One of the only disabled activists to speak at Labour’s annual conference has delivered a powerful rebuke to ministers who have failed to do anything to curb the rising levels of disability-related…

Disabled activist tells conference meeting: Hostile rhetoric under Labour has left me feeling hounded and unsafe
#LabConf25
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I stand with the Jewish community today and always

I have written a Checklist for UK Managers: Disability Related Reasonable Adjustments.
Hope you find it useful
audreyludwig.com/checklist-fo...

Disabled Nigerian man living in UK for 38 years wins appeal against deportation Anthony Olubunmi George, who arrived in 1986 and has no criminal convictions, given right to remain

Advocates of the UK Home Office/ministers getting more or less unlimited discretion to decide deportation cases, free from any real substantive judicial scrutiny, should be asked about this case.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I like this very much as an approach to creative writing

Hilma af Klint :
No. 113, Group III, The Parsifal Series, 1916

Is George Abaraonye, the president-elect of the Oxford Union. having relatively poor A levels results but getting into Oxford University because of direct race discrimination? I look at Equality law and the need to consider alternative explanations audreyludwig.com/alternative-...

To assess people’s integrity, check out how they respond after the murder of a disliked political opponent.

Thanks!

The hanks. I’ve had to upload in separate post

Robin Hood Airport tweet bomb joke man wins case A man found guilty of sending a tweet threatening to blow up an airport wins his challenge against conviction.

See the last post www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

It was as recent as 2012 that the man who satirically wrote he would bomb an airport had his conviction rightly quashed by the High Court. He was supported by Stephen Fry and Al Murray. Where are the noble defenders of satirists now? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Ive written a blog about Equality Law and the University: An Illustration of Complexity
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Thank you for sharing

Usually I aim to post positive things and examples of good practice, but today I'm breaking the self imposed rule because a) the sex discrimination against teenage girls is so shocking and b) it's happening on my doorstep, which is Frome in the SW of England.
Furious 🧵

US artist Elizabeth Catlett's 1946 print honours Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), who was sold into slavery at the age of seven and later became the first published African-American female poet #womensart

It is here audreyludwig.com/how-importan...

As some activist groups have been quite misleading about relative legal importance of Equality Act Statutory Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions & Associations I have done general explainer on statutory codes of practice & their legal significance. Link in first reply

I am afraid I have hot takes about this.

I really wish we hadn’t ended up in this world where being a regulator is a profession, with people pursuing it as a career flitting between the BSB and HM Inspector of Constabulary. The expertise should be in the underlying area not Regulation itself.

Ive written a blog about why I disagree, unsurprisingly, that the Equality Act is reinforcing identity politics audreyludwig.com/is-the-equal...

Too many agains, again!

🚨 Equality Law Compliance is a Must-Have; EDI Alone Won’t Protect You 🚨 | Audrey Ludwig MBE 🚨 Equality Law Compliance is a Must-Have; EDI Alone Won’t Protect You 🚨 In the modern workplace, organisations have been investing in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). Done properly these can...

I am banging on again about equality law compliance again… www.linkedin.com/posts/audrey...

Supreme Court Judgement - Presentation by Audrey Ludwig and FAQs Recording of equality law expert, Audrey Ludwig, discussing the recent Supreme Court ruling on the definition of 'sex' and the implications for women's organisations.

The Impact of the For Women Scotland case for Women’s Charities www.wrc.org.uk/Blog/supreme...

Good morning from the Masai Mara breakfast table

Leave aside the NIMBYism: am I the only one who thinks wind farms look great? Always find it oddly awe-inspiring seeing fields of those huge turbines up in the hills. Certainly better than a fossil-fuel power plant.

This is an excellent analysis of the Leveson Review (and not only because it mirrors my own view as I wade through the report).

The biggest problem in the courts, as any criminal barrister will tell you, is that things just don’t *work*.

So much time is lost to systemic inefficiency.

Painting featuring a standing white woman at work at the easel.painting with brushes and palette, the subject wears a white turban style hat, black dress with lace ruff and red ribbon belt, she looks directly outwards with a smile

Self-Portrait, 1790 by French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, most famous female painter of the 18thc in Europe #womensar

Great tip for those considering policy making in a Equality Act compliant way:

"Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence."
Robert Frost, Mending Wall