AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I am not going to use Bluesky for the foreseeable future 582
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEGraham @grahamsutton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Shared by the excellent Audrey Ludwig on Linked in - a proper legal summary from Irwin Mitchell on the EHRC guide. www.irwinmitchell.com/news-and-ins... (She's here as @audreysuffolk.bsky.social but posts mainly on X)irwinmitchell.comEHRC Code of Practice for services: what does it say about toilets and changing rooms?The government has put the draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations before parliament. Parliament has 40 days to scrutinise the Code and it will automatically be adopted,... 001
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026@harrietharman.bsky.social hasn’t the emotional intelligence to understand she wasn’t the right woman to comment about Jenni Murray on the BBC. It needed someone like Suzanne Moore who understands the great courage and integrity needed to sacrifice her job for women’s sex based rights 4369
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I am a patron of the arts! I contributed to a crowdfunder by poet, teacher and Quaker Rebecca Leek to publish her poem Elizabeth Fry Stops By, about the legacy of Elizabeth Fry and following the formation of the Cambridge Union Society Of Women. I now have five copies of this beautiful booklet 1161
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I have written a piece on balancing conflicts of rights (and mentioning LF) for the March Discrimination Law Association Briefing for those who are members. Ive put a copy on my website at audreyludwig.com/no-more-good...audreyludwig.comNo More Goodies and Baddies Thinking: Restoring Balance In Equality Law and Conflict of Rights – Audrey Ludwig 042
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBESimon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 17/02/2026'Holywells Park, Ipswich', Thomas Gainsborough, c1750. John Cobbold bought the estate in 1812 and used the springs to make beer. Today a public park, a sign marks the spot where Gainsborough stood, though the foreground is now full of trees planted by the Cobbolds. Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich. 3154
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Embroidery design by May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor #WomensArt 037868
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Trust Uni of Oxford Prof Michael Foran to provide the authoritative explainer for the JR brought by the GLP and others v EHRC. Hopefully copies will be provided to MPs who clearly didn’t read the judgment before commenting. Link in comment 1242
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEPeter Daly @peterdaly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026So depressing to see a Labour MP push misinformation like this. The judgment @kateosbornemp.bsky.social refers to is here: goodlawproject.org/wp-content/u.... Will she say which paragraph/s say “the EHRC’s draft code of practice got the law wrong”? No. Because none do. bsky.app/profile/kate...goodlawproject.org 24322
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEAkua Reindorf KC @akuareindorfkc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Your claim that the judgment "confirms that the EHRC's draft code of practice got the law wrong" is categorically untrue. The judgment is not even about the code of practice - it's about the interim update. Every single argument made against the interim update was dismissed by the judge. 67310
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEThe Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 27/11/2025On this day in 1981, #SoftCell released their debut studio album, "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret". The album's success was bolstered by the popularity of the cover version of #GloriaJones song "Tainted Love", which topped the charts worldwide and became the second best-selling British single of 1981. 851951190
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEChristopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Beautiful day here at the Red House and its archive; fingers crossed we get the same for Britten's birthday tomorrow. (If you're around Aldeburgh on Saturday, drop in - it's free, there's cake, and I'm doing Stories from the Archive talks several times in the day.) 0152
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBELeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025This story about a Reform councillor in Northumberland has about three different massive stories in it. He's accused of ripping off his constituents to the tune of £140k. He owes his own council nearly £40k in unpaid tax. His own council is suing him.bbc.co.ukBlyth Reform councillor Barry Elliott's property firms owe customers £140,000Property companies owned or run by Barry Elliott owe tens of thousands of pounds to customers. 11300190
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEMartin Travis @martintravis.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Well another depressingly dull and grey rainy day, so here's a few more photos from a few weeks back, of autumn colours at Sefton Park, Liverpool. 🍁🍃🍂 843028
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEDisability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025🗣️“Cutting support does not lead to people getting work. Those of us pushed into work by cuts will end up in precarious jobs, we will be there for a few months before the work has made us even sicker.” DR UK campaign Mikey quoted in @theipaper.com today 👇 inews.co.uk/news/politic...inews.co.ukThe jobs disabled people are pushed towards - and what they really needCampaigners warn the Government's approach risks trapping disabled people in unsuitable roles 35426
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEWill Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The only compensation the Waspi women should receive is an apology from the bullshitters who have strung them along for years on the promise of extra cash to which they have never been entitled. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...newstatesman.comThe Waspi women were lied toTheir campaign became the tool of cynical politicians. 2439
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Ive written a blog about why responsibility for equality law compliance should move from Human Resources to Risk Management audreyludwig.com/why-equality...audreyludwig.comWhy Equality Law Compliance Belongs in Risk Management — Not Human Resources – Audrey Ludwig 050
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 11/10/2025I 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 . 0171
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I 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 060
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEDisability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Disabled activist tells conference meeting: Hostile rhetoric under Labour has left me feeling hounded and unsafe #LabConf25 @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @starrelliott.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @kwajo.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/activist-tel...disabilitynewsservice.comActivist tells conference meeting: Hostile rhetoric under Labour has left me feeling hounded and unsafeOne 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… 0136
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I stand with the Jewish community today and always 0153
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I have written a Checklist for UK Managers: Disability Related Reasonable Adjustments. Hope you find it useful audreyludwig.com/checklist-fo...audreyludwig.comChecklist for UK Managers: Disability Related Reasonable Adjustments – Audrey Ludwig 041
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEColm O'Cinneide @colmocinneide.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Advocates 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...theguardian.comDisabled Nigerian man living in UK for 38 years wins appeal against deportationAnthony Olubunmi George, who arrived in 1986 and has no criminal convictions, given right to remain 0124
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEAlexander Chandler KC @familybrief.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I like this very much as an approach to creative writing 011
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEphoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Hilma af Klint : No. 113, Group III, The Parsifal Series, 1916 0174
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Is 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-...audreyludwig.comAlternative Explanations Beyond Unlawful Discrimination: A Lawyer’s Approach to Causal Link – Audrey Ludwig 140
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025To assess people’s integrity, check out how they respond after the murder of a disliked political opponent. 2202
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025See the last post www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...bbc.co.ukRobin Hood Airport tweet bomb joke man wins caseA man found guilty of sending a tweet threatening to blow up an airport wins his challenge against conviction. 110
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025It 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…bbc.co.uk 160
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Ive written a blog about Equality Law and the University: An Illustration of Complexity audreyludwig.com/equality-law...audreyludwig.comEquality Law and the University: An Illustration of Complexity – Audrey Ludwig 042
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBESusannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Usually 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 🧵 52413
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2025US 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 0866166
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025As 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 112
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEJacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 29/07/2025I 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. 7266
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Ive written a blog about why I disagree, unsurprisingly, that the Equality Act is reinforcing identity politics audreyludwig.com/is-the-equal...audreyludwig.comIs the Equality Act 2010 Reinforcing Identity Politics? Quite the Opposite. – Audrey Ludwig 182
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I am banging on again about equality law compliance again… www.linkedin.com/posts/audrey...linkedin.com🚨 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... 1184
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025The Impact of the For Women Scotland case for Women’s Charities www.wrc.org.uk/Blog/supreme...wrc.org.ukSupreme Court Judgement - Presentation by Audrey Ludwig and FAQsRecording of equality law expert, Audrey Ludwig, discussing the recent Supreme Court ruling on the definition of 'sex' and the implications for women's organisations. 1107
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEDavid KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Good morning from the Masai Mara breakfast table 91043
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEHugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Leave 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. 22636
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This 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. 721382
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Self-Portrait, 1790 by French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, most famous female painter of the 18thc in Europe #womensar 21490188
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Great 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 090
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Born on this day in 1593, in Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi. One of the great painters of Baroque Italy. Endured shit and painted about it. Here, herself as a martyr, Saint Catherine, 1616. 8746139
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith slicing off head of Holofernes. No prettifying this story from Artemisia Gentileschi in 1611. Today is her day. 1953172
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Mary Magdalene. Not penitent. Just Melancholy. Or just wanted a nap. Painted in the 1620s by Artemisia Gentileschi, whose day was today. 2253859
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Self-portrait as a Female Martyr, c,1615 by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most accomplished of Italian Baroque painters #womensart 01181134
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Magnificent portrait of a woman, 1620, by Artemisia Gentileschi. She was born on this day in 1593. 231107131
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBELaw Centres Network @lawcentres.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The government has announced it will increase #LegalAid fees for housing and immigration work. This will be the first pay rise for legal aid lawyers in nearly 30 years! More is needed to bolster this vital public service. Read our response: 🔗 www.lawcentres.org.uk/news/lcn-res... 056
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEM. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 06/07/2025“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.” — A. Whitney Griswold 130118092489
Reposted by AudreySuffolk MBEJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Tell me your company has no Brits without telling me 471050243