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It Depends (tm) but generally a private club can admit, or not, whoever they please, or don't.

• OJFord 4y ago
  In the UK (& I believe EU) that's true to the extent that you could have an even more personal ('I don't like your face') objection, but your reasoning can't be on the basis of a 'protected characteristic', such as race. Though actually maybe private members' clubs have some kind of exception to that - gender is also a protected characteristic under that act, but there are gentlemen's (only) clubs still (ladies' too perhaps, I'm not sure).
  • moritonal 4y ago
    There are male-only clubs (The Garrack, Savage Club), and more modern female and non-binary only clubs (such as the marguerite). They are all, by definition sexist, but you are allowed under UK law to be such when deciding who to invite to a party. What would be interesting, is if one became a monopoly in its niche (often clubs have a _thing_), whether one could argue they missed out on serious opportunities in work because they were not allowed to join, but I don't know of such a case being risen.
    • jl6 4y ago
      Indeed it was The Garrick about which Baroness Hale made something rather like that argument, noting that many of her male colleagues were members, perhaps implying that they enjoyed a networking opportunity that she had been denied: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/garrick-club-votes-to-continue-with-ban-on-women-members https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/garrick-club-v...