Farah Damji seeks a Volunteer Editor while resting in the Dock

In a long life one is bound to come across all sorts of people - and who can be older than the Madame Arcati blog? Almost 20! In online terms this must surely be a near-record. Madame has encountered saints, sinners, cunts and countesses. It's a wonder a commode is not my new logo, with halo of air freshener. Among the clattering cans tied to my social rear bumper is the creature Farah Damji ['she/her'], once a frenemy of this site before I realised that among her many talents is the ability not to stay out of jail, here and overseas.

I have much to say about dear Farah even if I understand she is unwell, shackled to her cell bed. According to an odd Mirror report she has cancer. That is as may be. But more particularly she is on trial. Again. She is accused of harassing an ex-lover, among other allegations. Allow me to share this recent Times report lest I be accused of making things up...

Oh dear. Innocent till proven otherwise, poppets, even if the reader is cursed with deja vu. But while Farah pays visits to a courthouse in the UK, unshackled from her cell bed presumably, my attention is drawn to a job ad on LinkedIn (algorithmically brought to my attention via a shared contact with Cherie Blair KC) supposedly posted by someone called Farah Damji. The lucky applicant will become the 'Volunteer Editor' of The View, a publication dedicated to the wellbeing of female prisoners, such as Farah herself. Here it is...

Don't apply all at once. Farah describes herself as a 'Human Rights Activist and Justice Reformer' which could be true as far as it goes, but the CV omits 'Professional Jailbird' from the Robin Hood-style self-advertisment. Someone called Clare Simms is listed as a director, but this is Farah herself, allegedly - part of her modus operandi is to create a dramatis personae of pseudonymous Farahs who operate from different email addresses. If the real Clare Simms would care to get in touch with evidence that her dental records differ from Farah's I'd be most grateful. I won't hold my breath. But the matter remains open and subject to conjecture. Farah could be as pure as the driven coke. 

Certainly The View offers an opportunity for career development, though the word 'Volunteer' suggests that he/she/neither might be looking at a pay break.