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Welcome to the club: why are private members’ clubs booming?

Whether it’s an exclusive establishment with a years-long waiting list or a working men’s club at the heart of its community, there’s nothing like a sense of belonging. And when times are tough, memberships go up

The Guardian - UK

Simon Case 'rejoins Garrick club' six months after resigning amid row over ban on women members

The head of the civil service resigned after he was named on a list of 80 senior male figures in politics, the law and arts who were members while women were excluded

Evening Standard

Head of civil service Simon Case rejoins Garrick Club six months after quitting it

Case left in March after the Guardian published names of senior public figures who were in the then men-only club

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The week in theatre: Why Am I So Single?; The Band Back Together; Our Country’s Good – review

Dating disasters fuel a joyful new musical from the creators of Six; three old band members reunite in Barney Norris’s low-key elegy to lost youth. Plus, a hit-and-miss revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s penal colony classic

The Guardian - UK

Unappealing as some life peers are, entitled lords are defending the indefensible

Tony Blair’s bodged upper house reform enabled a kind of Garrick Club, with no risk of women

The Guardian - UK

Two more men-only clubs in UK to ask members if women should join

Discussions and a poll follow Garrick Club vote to admit women this year

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Fry: ‘The Conservatives are what we call in poker a busted flush’

The actor on playing a Polish Holocaust survivor alongside Lena Dunham, what he likes about hip‑hop and why a boring PM would be a relief

The Guardian - UK

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There’s actually a place for single-sex clubs. They just need to be justified

If we organise a monthly lads poker night or a female book group, are we as guilty of being exclusionary as the Garrick Club? Maybe we all need to mix up our social circles more, suggests Oliver Keens – or at least acknowledge when they’re not mixed at all

The Independent UK

Garrick Club and Women’s Institute swapping members would benefit society

Letters: Neil Hanson, Polly Bissett and Alistair Gregory on the club’s decision to accept women

The Guardian - UK

It’s as if misogyny was the vice that dared not speak its name at the Garrick. That cloud has now lifted

I saw a voting process that was both dignified and moving – and as a member of long standing, I welcome this change, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Garrick club chair says ‘exceptional lady members’ may be fast-tracked

Christopher Kirker tells members that normal waiting times will apply for most women as concerns raised about tokenism

The Guardian - UK

Why UK gentlemen’s club the Garrick is accepting women for first time in nearly 200 years

All-male private members’ club in London has voted in favour of women joining after Guardian coverage

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Standard View: Holiday e-gate nightmare must not be repeated

If Border Force e-gates suffer a nationwide meltdown leaving thousands stranded, but Chinese-sponsored hacking isn’t to blame, does anyone in government make a sound?

Evening Standard

Garrick Club victory for women ‘is a win on the long road to gender equality’

Private members club’s decision to allow female members for the first time in its 193-year history welcomed by campaigner

Evening Standard

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Members of London’s Garrick Club vote to let women join for first time

Vote followed outrage over membership list that revealed the club was a bastion of Britain’s establishment.

The Guardian - UK

Garrick Club votes to accept female members for first time

Members back dropping men-only rule in place for 193 years, after Guardian revealed details of membership list

The Guardian - UK

Men-only Garrick Club to vote on admitting women as members

Meeting on Tuesday evening will debate the issue after new legal analysis of 193-year-old rulebook

The Guardian - UK

The Garrick Club needs women. But try telling that to the members with the locker-room bants

Only women can rid the club of the guardians of the Y-chromosome’s ‘we’ve always done it this way’ misogyny

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The Guardian - UK

Bitterly divided Garrick Club prepares to vote on female membership again

Tuesday’s debate on whether the existing rules do not in fact bar women comes amid rising resignations and threats

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rachel Johnson: Forget the Garrick, women — single-sex spaces matter

Achtung! It is time the capital dragged its appalled gaze from the chaos on Mein Campus in the US to the crisis in London’s Clubland. For an historic vote in the Garrick Club, which could roll the pitch for the full admission of women after a mere 200 years of…

Evening Standard

Sting and Stephen Fry threaten to resign from Garrick Club unless it admits women members

The actor and singer have co-signed a letter with some of London’s leading theatre producers

The Guardian - UK

Admit women or we quit, Sting and Stephen Fry tell Garrick

In letter ahead of vote, signatories including Mark Knopfler say relations with female colleagues have been damaged

The Guardian - UK

High court judge removed from case in part due to his Garrick membership

Sir Jonathan Cohen was due to hear case involving alleged rape victim but second judge ruled he should not hear it

The Guardian - UK

Garrick edges closer to admitting female members after 193 years of exclusion

Move comes after Guardian revealed names of powerful men among club’s exclusive membership

The Guardian - UK

We don’t need the Garrick. We can all club together at a pub

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