Audrey Ludwig MBE

Equality law compliance trainer & consultant. Non-practising Solicitor. Deaf. Personal thoughts on Equality/Disability/Feminism/Law/ Access2Justice/FineArt etc

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

🚀 Exciting Announcement! 🚀

Today marks the launch of my new company, Audrey Ludwig Training and Consulting Limited, and my brand-new website!
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Bespoke, legally accurate training and consultancy to help organisations navigate equality law with confidence

[Jonathan Hinder MP @Jonathan_Hinder]

“If you don’t believe in free speech for your opponents, you don’t believe in free speech.”

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

I agree with Dan. The Counter Terror Policing National coordinator has literally just asked for her officers to be given the “space to work carefully and clearly”, yet many unfit for office are practically vibrating with agitation and speculation.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

It is so disappointing when a fellow left winger doesn’t get that when speech and manifestation of belief are curtailed, it is the most vulnerable that end up being silenced due to institutional bias and fear of retaliation

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

This is what we are up against.

Prominent Labour backbencher Stella Creasy has said at a Labour fringe event at the party conference that speech must be controlled in order to be free.

Creasy said: “It’s recognising the impact and the context in which people have conversations and debate… [recognising] the value of free speech but understanding, if we are progressives and socialists, that we need to tackle the barriers that stop people from being allowed to be heard at all.”

She added that “those barriers don’t disappear” when speech is fully unregulated.

The MP went on to support further harassment legislation, saying: “If we want to stand up for free speech, we have to stand up for the right of people to say stop – actually, you’re not going to change my mind, this conversation isn’t one I want to continue being part of, and the way you go on behaving means that I don’t feel that I can speak at all.”

The Free Speech Union can’t believe that it has to point out this basic fact to a sitting MP: controlled speech is not free speech.

Just as Stella Creasy cannot tell the difference between a parrot and a parakeet, she appears to have no idea what she is talking about.

Read more from @GuidoFawkes below 👇

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

You lot know that International Federations no longer use T levels to determine eligibility into the Female category, don't you?

You know that the SRY gene screen invovlves a non invasive cheek swab, don't you?

You know that the 'Phelps Gambit' misses the difference between category and competitive advantage, don't you?

You know that 'hyperandrogenism' is a misdescription of male DSDs like 5ARD, don't you?

And you know that Semenya and Khelif's exclusion from the female category has nothing to do with 'white eurocentric standards of beauty', and everything to do with them being XY and SRY positive, - having testes - don't you?

Could you please explain why hundreds of people on social media understand these relatively simple facts, and dozens of 'sports studies' academics don't, instead banging on as if it's 2018?

Grr.

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

Level boarding. Arguably the most underrated feature you can (and should) build into any new train.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Climbing this mountain is considered a profound religious violation.

Mount Kailash rises more than 6,600 m (21,700 ft) above western Tibet. It is one of the most sacred mountains on Earth, as it is revered in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bon.

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[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

@AdaptLaw That is great

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

@ChantAngle64 @MaryDenis8591 @raw_gordon @helenstaniland You might want to read the judgment of the High Court in Good Law Project v EHRC ( 2026) para 45 which confirms that Workplace ( Health Safety and Welfare ) Regs paras 20 and 21 separate sex means biological sex in accordance with FWS and s9(3)GRA https://t.co/0sJRlXuP7O

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

After today’s world premiere of 5 SOLDIERS: The Body is the Frontline at Hereford Military Festival:

“Went this afternoon. Enthralled by every second. The post screening discussion was so interesting as well.”

And from a veteran of Op Herrick 10 with 2 Rifles:

“Wonderful show this afternoon and an interesting exchange between @RosieKayK2CO & @Mr_Andrew_Fox. It evoked a few memories from my own deployment on Op Herrick 10 with 2 Rifles @RiflesRegiment and for my wife who had to sweat it out back home by herself. Thoroughly recommend it to anyone who can make the next viewing, in London.”

Now the film comes to Chelsea History Festival.

Only a few tickets left.

Saturday 3 October, 4pm
Chelsea Theatre
Followed by Rosie Kay in conversation with General Sir Nick Parker KCB CBE
Book:
https://t.co/HrFhcutd51
Let’s sell out Chelsea.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

One minute. That is all it takes to listen to this beautiful voice. One minute to become her voice.

Parastoo Ahmadi, one of Iran's most beloved singers, has reportedly been sentenced to 74 lashes simply for singing. Her musicians and production team face the same punishment. In the 21st century, a woman will be lashed on her body because she dared to sing.

I want to scream. I want to shout in the street and sing loud and tell everyone: this government is killing innocent people, executing them, lashing them. This is not a normal government.

So I am calling on every famous singer, every big name, every artist with a stage and a microphone: be Parastoo's voice. Sing for her until she can sing again.

#ParastooAhmadi

[Maurice Black @mauricejblack]

We Irish should be proud of Wexford novelist John Banville, who recently withdrew from a Granada literary festival that dropped Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz over her opposition to cultural boycotts on Israel. Harwicz is a highly acclaimed writer, whose first novel was adapted into the 2025 film Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and produced by Martin Scorsese.

Banville declined to comment on his withdrawal from the festival, but he doesn't need to, as he's been making the case against ideological bullying for years. He signed a 2020 Harper's letter warning against ideological conformity in cultural life. In an RTÉ interview, he stated that people should be free to disagree with a writer's views, but that suppressing their work is "very, very dangerous."

Banville's own novels show Copernicus and Kepler battling against the orthodoxies of their time. His Quirke series dissects a 1950s Ireland where "blanket censorship and official lying" were the norm. Only this month, he was writing about the censorship of Edna O'Brien's early work, including her debut novel, The Country Girls, which was denounced by the Church and banned by the state after its publication in 1960. So good for John Banville. We just need more such people willing to take a stand against censorship and suppression.
https://t.co/nVOMWDJt8U

[Levi Pay @soppystern]

What is your proposed compromise solution here?

Alluding to the need for compromise on both sides rings a little hollow if you are not, at the same time, able to propose what that compromise might look like.

With some issues, there is simply no room for compromise. A space is either single-sex or it is not single-sex. I struggle to see the room for compromise there. However, if you see some space that I don’t see, I am more than happy to listen to you sharing what that compromise would look like in practice.

[The Cassandra Centre @CassandraCentre]

“The boss of a domestic abuse charity which has been forced to close due to a funding crisis has said she was "bereft" but proud of its work over more than 30 years.” Awful. We send our sympathy - this work is vital but we too struggle so much to fund it.
https://t.co/bmPXACSCc2

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

@DollyGreyCloud The first issue I know little about . The second I do because, with fellow @legalfeminist and others we have achieved significant changes to the wording of the ETBB in the controversial parts.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

When politicians can get serving judges dismissed for making lawful decisions they politically disagree with, then the British way of life is over.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Ikram should have been dismissed as a judge a long time ago.

[Pierre d'Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur_in]

Fun fact from the Turner Prize press junket on Thursday: more than half of my esteemed colleagues attending didn't bother watching Simeon Barclay's video 'The Ruin' for more than a few minutes (the work is much longer). Because lunch was being served.

[Pierre d'Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur_in]

That the whole field of culture appears foreclosed is the illusion against which we must do our work.

If you don’t have the means to build new institutions, there are still many things you can do. Organise a reading group with friends in a room above a pub. Show up to events that offer some freedom and exercise that freedom. Say out loud in public what you think works and what doesn’t. Be seen engaging with culture. Insist that these things are important. Explain how they give you vital pleasure.

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

@TomPowell6742 @KirstieMAllsopp I suspect she has wielded a hammer and enthusiastically. The real difference is safety nets in the form of finance if the DIY goes pear shaped. Many first homebuyers are so stretched they cannot risk things going wrong. I couldn’t find £250 when my washing machine broke

[FiLiA @FiLiA_charity]

All this talk at #Labour26 of the Equality Act - watch @akuareindorf Prof. Mary Davis & @AudreySuffolk, at our #webinar: In Defence of the Equality Act.

📆 Thursday 22nd October 6.30PM BST
🌐 Online via Zoom
🎫 https://t.co/Ihs0niE1cC

#WomensRightsAreHumanRights

[PoliceStationRep @thesecretbrief]

Personally I buy children’s trainers cos I get through so many but… yeah good point!

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

After a century-and-quite-a-bit of Mallarmé, Wilde, decadence, Proust, the Russian Formalists, the New Critics and the intentional fallacy, structuralism and poststructuralism, the death of the author, and any amount of experimental literature, it is hugely disappointing to find large numbers of young people and others who are still stuck in the nineteenth-century quagmire of literature as self-expression, as a ‘window onto the soul’, biographical reductionism, and neo-Victorian moralism.