Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦
@smitajamdar.bsky.social
Head of Education Shakespeare Martineau, LFC, she/her
This should all be treated as proceeds of crime and action taken accordingly.
It’s one thing not to stop this kind of advertising but to profit from it as absolutely unconscionable.
It’s one thing not to stop this kind of advertising but to profit from it as absolutely unconscionable.
"[Meta] revealed in internal documents rhat around 10 per cent of its annual revenue comes from advertising placed by fraudsters. This equates to $16 billion a year in annual revenue"
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This should all be treated as proceeds of crime and action taken accordingly.
It’s one thing not to stop this kind of advertising but to profit from it as absolutely unconscionable.
It’s one thing not to stop this kind of advertising but to profit from it as absolutely unconscionable.
I think Allister might spontaneously combust if he encountered actual full-blooded socialism.
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I think Allister might spontaneously combust if he encountered actual full-blooded socialism.
Great piece 👇🏽
NEW on Wonkhe: UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing buff.ly/tOd4d7A
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Great piece 👇🏽
Last night I stayed in a hotel and woke up this morning to find I had forgotten my hairbrush and was forced to brush my hair with the complementary travel toothbrush provided in the bathroom.
The day has not improved since.
The day has not improved since.
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Last night I stayed in a hotel and woke up this morning to find I had forgotten my hairbrush and was forced to brush my hair with the complementary travel toothbrush provided in the bathroom.
The day has not improved since.
The day has not improved since.
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Praise where praise is due: scrapping the two-child benefit cap is an excellent move. And the most consequential of any of the measures announced today.
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The thing is, for Farage the man no longer to be what Farage the boy apparently suggested he was, we would have had to see some evidence of a change, not a career built around fomenting xenophobia and racism and allying with others who did the same.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The thing is, for Farage the man no longer to be what Farage the boy apparently suggested he was, we would have had to see some evidence of a change, not a career built around fomenting xenophobia and racism and allying with others who did the same.
Are they only just getting this now?
OfS' CEO today: "The closer you get to a crisis point as an institution, the less concerned you might be about future regulatory action for not cooperating with the regulator. So that makes our tools and our ability to drive student protection planning limited in some scenarios.”
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Are they only just getting this now?
WTAF
“Employees Rally Around [the University of Pennsylvania’s] Refusal to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names *** The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs & organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.” 11/25/25 … 1/
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
WTAF
Imagine writing the last two sentences of this and actually thinking that is a state of affairs to which we should aspire.
What is wrong with him.
What is wrong with him.
‘It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain.’
That’s some weaselly way of saying that he rather likes the idea of racialised fear as an instrument of state.
That’s some weaselly way of saying that he rather likes the idea of racialised fear as an instrument of state.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Imagine writing the last two sentences of this and actually thinking that is a state of affairs to which we should aspire.
What is wrong with him.
What is wrong with him.
The absolute sense of supremacy and entitlement to think you can say stuff like this *and* be the one who decides whether it is hurtful or not.
Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The absolute sense of supremacy and entitlement to think you can say stuff like this *and* be the one who decides whether it is hurtful or not.
What is astonishing about this is that I recall very clearly that our business like many others started to voluntarily cut events and meetings before from mid-March and we as a family started to isolate a bit. So the position could have been even worse if individuals hadn’t taken these mitigations.
Bringing in lockdown a week earlier on 16 March would have meant 23,000 fewer deaths in England in the first wave, modelling suggests. This would have equated to 48% fewer deaths in the first wave.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What is astonishing about this is that I recall very clearly that our business like many others started to voluntarily cut events and meetings before from mid-March and we as a family started to isolate a bit. So the position could have been even worse if individuals hadn’t taken these mitigations.
This is brilliant and I am permanently dissapoofed
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is brilliant and I am permanently dissapoofed
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Seems like a good time (again) to share the guide I developed with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, which tells you how to talk about refugees and asylum in a way that actually convinces the undecided - based on testing 🧵 www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...
Changing the Conversation on Asylum: A Messaging Guide
Our new messaging guide looks at the methodology and messages that can help us carve out a new approach that will be successful in persuading the public that seeking safety is a fundamental human righ...
www.freedomfromtorture.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Seems like a good time (again) to share the guide I developed with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, which tells you how to talk about refugees and asylum in a way that actually convinces the undecided - based on testing 🧵 www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...
Can we at least stop with the b*<#%cks that this country is still open, tolerant and generous. The nauseating hypocrisy needs to end.
"Mahmood said a raft of tough immigration controls were designed to unlock “the inherent openness, tolerance and generosity” of the British people."
Such nauseating shamelessness.
Such nauseating shamelessness.
Mahmood’s new asylum plan: when home is ‘safe’, we’ll send you back | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Can we at least stop with the b*<#%cks that this country is still open, tolerant and generous. The nauseating hypocrisy needs to end.
“Golden ticket”. FFS. What a sickening way to describe the plight of people driven from their homes in traumatic circumstances.
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“Golden ticket”. FFS. What a sickening way to describe the plight of people driven from their homes in traumatic circumstances.
The moral the rest of us should draw from this is that unless you are willing *never* to disagree with Trump, supporting him will not protect him from turning on you. So don’t bother pandering to him in the first place. Fight him *stares hard at the BBC*
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The moral the rest of us should draw from this is that unless you are willing *never* to disagree with Trump, supporting him will not protect him from turning on you. So don’t bother pandering to him in the first place. Fight him *stares hard at the BBC*
Refugee means the life you had built & cared about has been ripped from you through no fault of your own. Our official policy is going to be to repeat that process years later, sending them back to rebuild again. Not a single one of us would want to be in that position. Why vote for it for others?
"The moment your country is safe to return to, you will be removed", a Home Office source said.
An obviously false claim - a deportation fantasy - to over-spin "send them back" claims to the media
Whatever the merits of the policies on Monday, some of this OTT language is beyond any defence.
An obviously false claim - a deportation fantasy - to over-spin "send them back" claims to the media
Whatever the merits of the policies on Monday, some of this OTT language is beyond any defence.
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Refugee means the life you had built & cared about has been ripped from you through no fault of your own. Our official policy is going to be to repeat that process years later, sending them back to rebuild again. Not a single one of us would want to be in that position. Why vote for it for others?
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This is why you should not eat nuts on a plane. A friends child went into anaphylaxis because of it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is why you should not eat nuts on a plane. A friends child went into anaphylaxis because of it.
This is an absolutely chilling read.
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is an absolutely chilling read.
I certainly did.. in a hollow gallows humour kind of way, but I laughed
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I certainly did.. in a hollow gallows humour kind of way, but I laughed
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It's hard not to laugh
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It's hard not to laugh
Ditto.
I’m not saying I won’t moan about it when the time comes to pay, but I think the Govt should raise my income tax because I am profoundly worried about the state of public services.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Ditto.