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Eiri Ohtani

@eiriohtani.bsky.social
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I say about 5% of what I would like to say. Migrant. Moody. Allergic to idiocy and noisy people. Director at Right to Remain.

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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’ve done staff recruitment for 20+ years. Yesterday I was lectured at length that I should use PS to assess each candidate. WTF.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m amazed that there are still people out there who believe the government or the prime minister will halt the far right violence. Where have you been?!
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"At that point, when the far right eventually take office, they will not need to construct the tools of repression. We will have built them for them." Too many people in position of power are afflicted with death wish. bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t...
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The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If immigration detention capacity increases, it’s not just private security companies who will gain - right? I said this to lawyers who are familiar with the NGO world, and they were genuinely surprised.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is there any word to describe a person who fails to do what they are supposed to do and causes damage to others (wasting time, creating problems and so on) but faces no consequences at all? I seem to surrounded by a large group of such people.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Guilty by Design: The Enshittification of British Justice netpol.org/2026/09/04/g...
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I should really change my bio. I actually say less than 1% of what I’m thinking and what I have actually seen.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A recurring reminder. Racism always kills. In so many different ways. Life shortened. Labor exploited. Sacrifices assumed. Dignity denied.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Britain's Juries
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
95% of the LinkedIn population are strategists. Bizarre, right?
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
righttoremain.org.uk/how-courage-... We first met Joseph outside the Home Office reporting center during the Rwanda crisis, almost ready to give up his fight for safety & justice. Thanks to his courage and our community of solidarity, he won his refugee status recently. #refugeeweek
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How Courage and Solidarity Helped Joseph Find Strength Again
by Maggy Moyo I watched Joseph stand in front of Home Office representatives and speak with anger, strength, honesty and deep conviction about everything he had endured under an unfair...
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
AI generated stuff for things that require ‘thinking’ often creates more, not less, work for others who are actually using their brains. All in all it uses more and not less time.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Too many self-appointed ‘thought leaders’ have ruined the world.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 05/05/2026
Now that the Filton verdict is out, we can confirm that the senior lawyer who is currently facing contempt of court charges, for eloquently defending one of his Palestine Action clients, is Rajiv Menon KC of Garden Court Chambers
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In this epoch of crisis, ability to feel, think and imagine is a critical tool we need to passionately harness, in order to survive. Yet people are voluntarily damaging and abandoning that ability by uncritically using generative AI. This is unspeakably irresponsible and depressing.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So, what comes after ‘hope’ is - a request for donations?
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Many who are incredible organisers don’t call themselves or see themselves as such. I know this narcissistic personal-branding culture wants to suppress this truth - but there, I’ve said it.
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) was founded in 1995, and John O was appointed as its first coordinator, a role he held until 2010. NCADC became Right to Remain in 2014. His funeral is on 30 March, in Birmingham. Rest in power, John O. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/tri...
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Tribute to John O
Tributes have been paid to long-time NUJ and pioneering industrial activist John O, who died aged 82 in February following a long battle with illness.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, what’s the plan after a massive anti-racism march in London?
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
AI seems to be suggesting to job hunters that they should ask potential employers ‘Where do you see this role developing in a year’s time?’. So many ask me this same question. FYI, employers, when they smell a hint of AI induced responses, just switch off.
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are hiring - Communications Officer! Use your communication experience to build the migration justice movement’s defiance and strength at a pivotal moment. Visit our webpage for more information about the role. Applications deadline: Monday 23rd March. righttoremain.org.uk/job-vacancy-...
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A huge thank you to everyone who joined our Annual Gatherings in Birmingham and Leeds! People fighting for migration justice and are currently going through the hostile asylum and immigration system came together to connect with each other, share ideas and build power. More on this, next week...
Right to Remain staff members and These Walls Must Fall campaigners standing by the banner that says 'Migration is Life'.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Our culture rewards talking, not doing.
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Can you help us improve how we keep in touch by answering 7 quick questions? Right to Remain is reviewing how our friends are receiving updates and information from us. Please complete our very short online survey before 8 March. The link to the survey is: forms.gle/am1Hf12smprs...
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My organisation charges other NGOs with a large income to buy tickets to attend our events. The idea is that that allows us to cover the travel expenses for unfunded grassroots and people seeking asylum. It’s embarrassing to see lack of solidarity - few groups are prepared to do this.
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hunting down undocumented migrants takes place in the UK too: we have our own ICE – Immigration Compliance and Enforcement teams. Here is a brand-new free 45-minute video by Leeds Anti-Raids Action - Fighting back against immigration raids Please share widely righttoremain.org.uk/resisting-im...
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Resisting immigration raids - Free 45-minute video by Leeds Anti-Raids Action
Leeds Anti-Raids Action have produced a training video designed to help people feel more confident about the basics of immigration raids: what they are, how to spot them, what your rights are, and the...
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Solidarity is a verb: going beyond social media posts, marches and demos. It is easy to say solidarity, it is much harder to do solidarity. Read our tips on how to do solidarity and step up. #NoOneIsIllegal righttoremain.org.uk/solidarity-i...
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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
UK Gov’s criminalisation of support for Palestine Action is untenable, morally and politically. It feels close to criminalising CND in the 1980s. Time for Gov to admit it is a mistake and back down.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Concerned parents at Epping.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
People who say and act in a way ‘I’m too important to do THIS.’ You have no place in my world. Ever. Feeling happy that now this is very clear to me.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 06/09/2025
Numbers at Parliament Square have been swelled by demonstrators from the National March of Gaza. Police are now just being followed around by people cursing and booing them
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Legal Update: Refugee family reunion: what’s changed, and what it means. The UK Gov has paused refugee family reunion from 4 Sept 2025. Existing cases continue, but new applications must now use strict visa rules creating new barriers for safety and reunion. righttoremain.org.uk/refugee-fami...
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Hi everyone! Lots of things are thrown at us right now. The truth is, migration is life. We will stay connected, look after each other and spread solidarity and love, to build a society that protects us all. #RefugeesWelcome #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I think it’s natural for anyone to sink into foul mood after sitting at the computer 13 hours. That was me today.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Any issue framed as a 'crisis' gives states an opportunity to curtail people's rights & liberty. This manufactured asylum hotel 'crisis' has emboldened the government to propose removing judicial oversight over asylum appeals as a solution. A TERRIBLE idea. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Keir Starmer to curb judges’ power in asylum cases
As migrant hotel protests grow, the PM is preparing a fast-track system to cut the backlog
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Netpol @netpol.org · 22/08/2025
Elbit, the Israeli company that was Palestine Action's primary target, is close to winning a £2bn MoD contract to train British soldiers. The idea that as genocide continues it's "business as usual" is why thousands plan to shut down the DSEi arms fair on 9 Sept www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
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UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers
Elbit, which was the primary target of Palestine Action's activism, is close to winning a contract that would allow it to train 60,000 troops per year, according to Private Eye
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
What do we do when our most virulent opponents have zero interest in having discussions or debates in good faith?
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"It’s there, in people’s mutual care, in all our fractious getting on and survival and recombination that you see the ferment of new ideas." davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/where-are-...
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Where are the signs of the coming socialist society?
Usually, when I write, I have a destination in mind when I begin – a critique of another socialist perhaps, or a proposal for how we should organise the left differently.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event - Charlie Warzel "What if we spend so much time waiting and arguing that we fail to marshal our energy toward addressing the problems that exist here and now?" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I’d like someone to count how many joint letters are issued by the sector I work in every year. I seem to see at least one such letter circulating almost every day.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Immigrant Workers in Italy Strike for a 40-Hour Week
Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigran...
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
So, what comes after solidarity?
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Really tiring when grant application guidelines are written by people whose understanding of the differences between outputs, outcomes and impact is pretty dubious.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 30/07/2025
If you've been following today's hearing, a judicial review will take place in November after a judge found there are strong grounds for the ban on Palestine Action breaching human rights and failing to consult in advance. The government case is weakened–but the group remains banned. Read our advice
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We need to wake up to the fact that £10 million that Home Office paid out as unlawful detention compensation to migrants is a lot of money to us but literally nothing in the eyes of this government. States don’t care how much border control costs.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
It was one of these days where at 5pm I did not complete any of the tasks that was on my to-do list for today, tasks which were mainly from my to do list 3 weeks ago.
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
'The government said it was clamping down on “abuse” of hotels housing those seeking asylum with its new “failure to travel guidance”.' As someone who has been working in this area too long, I'd say that this guidance has been operating for decades and not new. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Home Office to penalise asylum seekers who refuse to move out of hotels
Government concerned about risk of unrest spreading ahead of new protests at the Bell hotel in Essex
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
'Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests' - I'd rather see some blocks turned into housing units. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests
Creative studio says financial districts deserted in working-from-home shift could host revitalised nightlife sector
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Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Worth reading in full >>> From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Forever-Occupation, genocide, and profit: Special Rapporteur’s report exposes corporate forces behind destruction of Palestine
GENEVA – Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit, a UN expert warned today in a new report to the Human Rights Council that reveals ...
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