Clare Long-Summers

[Green Party Women #ForWomenAndPlanet @GreenPartyWomen]

Thank you for the music & all your creative projects,Dolly.
And for your work for children & literacy.
And for your spirit and courage.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1958, a young student preparing a presentation on The Lord of the Rings wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien and asked him to describe himself. Tolkien replied with a letter explaining who he was…

In 1958, student Deborah Webster wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien while preparing a school presentation and asked him to describe himself. Tolkien responded with a detailed self-portrait, famously writing, “I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size).”

He described his love of gardens, trees, simple food, and waistcoats, while admitting that he disliked travel and mechanical things. His answer offered a glimpse into the personality and preferences that made his fictional world feel so authentic.

[Liverpool Vista @LiverpoolVista]

This absolute gem at 102 Wavertree High Street is officially the last surviving Georgian bowed shop window in Liverpool! Built way back in 1796, those beautiful curved windows were originally designed to catch the natural light and show off goods to passersby.
Over the centuries, this Grade II listed building has been a cobbler, a saddler, and a "boot dealer". Today, the striking green facade is home to Ray Jones' World of Wood Turning, a master craftsman who lovingly restored the shopfront back in the 1980s.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Emma Haworth,
Summer Evening, 2020 #WomensArt #SumnerPaintings 🌞

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Lilies on the lake' by contemporary US painter Erin Hanson #womensart #SummerPaintings 🌞

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

Janine Powell ran a Post Office branch in Tiverton, Devon. In 2007 @PostOffice bosses accused her of stealing £74,000. Their own courts later found the Post Office knew its Horizon system had bugs from the earliest days of its operation. They prosecuted her anyway.

Post Office lawyers offered her a deal, plead guilty to false accounting and they would drop the theft charge.

She said no, she wasn't pleading guilty to something she hadn't done.

So they took her to trial in Exeter in 2008 and got their conviction. The judge gave her 18 months. She walked into prison two days after her daughter's 10th birthday.

She served five months behind bars, then three more wearing an electronic tag. She left three children behind, aged 10 to 18, in the care of friends because their mother was in a cell instead of at home.

She came out with a criminal record that made her unemployable, a hometown she felt too ashamed to walk through, and depression that pushed her toward suicide.

This was never a rogue glitch nobody noticed. The Court of Appeal later ruled the Post Office "consistently asserted that Horizon was robust and reliable" and "steamrolled over" any subpostmaster who challenged it, calling the prosecutions an affront to the conscience of the court.

Post Office lawyers hid evidence of Horizon's faults from courts, prosecutors and defence teams, to protect the organisation at all costs.

Powell's conviction was quashed in 2022, one of hundreds overturned in what is now Britain's widest miscarriage of justice.

More than 700 sub-postmasters were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 by an organisation that knew its own evidence was rotten and used it anyway.

Janine Powell has given evidence to the ongoing public inquiry. More than 45 people connected to the scandal are now under criminal investigation.

Still, nobody who signed off on her prosecution has spent a night in the cell they sent her to.

SOURCES
@BBCNews @itvnews @nickwallis

[Green Party Women #ForWomenAndPlanet @GreenPartyWomen]

📚 GPW Bookclub
🗯️ The Furies  by Elizabeth Flock.
🗓️ Tuesday 25 August 19.00
💚 All members & friends welcome
🥰 No need to have started or finished the book!
🔗 Register:
https://t.co/SDxhjXeFFr

[Bettany Hughes💙 @bettanyhughes]

The five best books on ancient history, according to Bettany Hughes https://t.co/ev7p7Ytlr8

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

IS THE POST OFFICE WAITING FOR BETTY BROWN TO DIE BEFORE IT PAYS UP??

Betty Brown ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham with her husband Oswall from 1985 to 2003. Good business. Nice customers. No problems.

Then Horizon arrived in 2000, built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk, and the till started lying.

First night it was £500 short.
Within weeks it was £1,500 to £1,600 a week, every week.

Betty and Oswall paid every shortfall out of their own pocket because the alternative was being branded a thief.

They handed over more than £50,000. Betty says the real figure was closer to £100,000.

That was their retirement money, poured into a hole created by software nobody at the @PostOffice bothered to question.

Betty was never prosecuted. Small mercy. Instead a manager decided she was too old for the job and needed replacing with someone who understood the technology.

She was pushed out in 2003.
Oswall died a year later.

Betty believes the stress helped kill him, and says his dying thoughts were about whether the Post Office had finally been in touch.

She spent the next two decades fighting for compensation while the people who built and defended a broken system kept their salaries, their bonuses and their pensions.

In 2025, aged 92, Betty finally settled her claim.
In 2026 she received an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle.

She used the moment to tell him that money does not equal justice, and asked him to pass that on to the Prime Minister.

She still had not received a single penny of her settlement by the time she collected the medal.

That is the British state's idea of closure. Ruin someone for over two decades then hand them a piece of metal before the cheque clears.

Betty says every subpostmaster caught up in the Horizon scandal deserves the same recognition she got.

She is right. None of them asked for a medal. They asked for their money and their names back.

SOURCES
@BBCNews @itvnews @ComputerWeekly @nickwallis @Karlfl

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

Thanks to @Feargal_Sharkey, the brilliant people he put me in touch with and everyone who contributed to writing, editing and producing this article. Read and be outraged.

https://t.co/ySyRXw5Ty0

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In April 1889, the British weekly magazine Tit-Bits published a collection of witty responses from unmarried women answering the question, “Why Am I a Spinster?” Rather than expressing regret over remaining single, these Victorian women responded with sharp humor, clever metaphors, and pointed criticism of marriage.

Some compared men unfavorably to less affectionate household animals, while others likened husbands to pastries that look tempting on the outside but turn out to be disappointing inside. Many also mocked the expectation that wives should shoulder endless unpaid domestic work. Their unapologetic celebration of independence and personal freedom makes the responses feel surprisingly modern—and still funny more than a century later.

[Green Party Women #ForWomenAndPlanet @GreenPartyWomen]

🌿GPW webinar
🔔Breaking the silence: a conversation about FGM
💚 With guest speaker Hibo Wardere
🗓️ Monday 7 September : 19.00
🌿All members & friends welcome
🔗 https://t.co/3VFlrA6uKc
@HiboWardere

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

A brief note for @nadhimzahawi @ITV @GMB @kategarraway.

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Maybe at the moment we should all (me included) take a break from any discussion of Cambridge's policies, and reflect on the tragic human costs -- and remember with compassion the person who paid a dreadful price.

[Green Party Women #ForWomenAndPlanet @GreenPartyWomen]

Pornocracy
GPW webinar with @jo_bartosch
19.00
All members & friends welcome
https://t.co/gLEdCuBD5D

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Sarah Jane Brown, contemporary Welsh land and seascape painter #WomensArt

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

‘My dad murdered my mum and won’t tell us where she is’ – daughter of Linda Razzell
https://t.co/Fm7NGZ3xzJ

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Hello @RobertKennedyJr

https://t.co/bRjhbn7gPL

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

People of Clacton, @ByDonkeys have absolutely lifted the lid here.

You pay Farage £94k to be your MP. He’s hardly ever there.

Meanwhile his 12 other jobs have paid him £1,182,498 since the election, Mayfair gold dealers, tax-avoidance passport hustlers, US anti-abortion outfits, thousands of Cameo videos, the lot.

He who pays the piper dictates the tone.

When the bigger cheques come from multimillionaires and foreign interests, what makes you think he’s representing you?

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Spanish crochet teacher Eva Pacheco and her students created a street canopy in crochet and knitting, making welcome shade for the community of Alhaurín de la Torre, Malaga #WomensArt