Eiri Ohtani
@eiriohtani.bsky.social
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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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.
It feels close to criminalising CND in the 1980s.
Time for Gov to admit it is a mistake and back down.
September 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.
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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Concerned parents at Epping.
August 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Concerned parents at Epping.
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.
You have no place in my world. Ever.
Feeling happy that now this is very clear to me.
September 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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.
You have no place in my world. Ever.
Feeling happy that now this is very clear to me.
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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
September 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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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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...
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...
September 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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...
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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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
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
September 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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
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
I think it’s natural for anyone to sink into foul mood after sitting at the computer 13 hours. That was me today.
August 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I think it’s natural for anyone to sink into foul mood after sitting at the computer 13 hours. That was me today.
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/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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
www.thetimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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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...
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
www.middleeasteye.net
August 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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...
What do we do when our most virulent opponents have zero interest in having discussions or debates in good faith?
August 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
What do we do when our most virulent opponents have zero interest in having discussions or debates in good faith?
"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-...
davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/where-are-...
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.
davidrenton590934.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"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-...
davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/where-are-...
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...
"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...
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.
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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...
"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...
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.
August 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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.
So, what comes after solidarity?
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
So, what comes after solidarity?
Really tiring when grant application guidelines are written by people whose understanding of the differences between outputs, outcomes and impact is pretty dubious.
July 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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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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
Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
July 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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
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.
July 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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.
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.
July 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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.
'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...
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...
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
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
'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...
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...
'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...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
'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...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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 ...
www.ohchr.org
July 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
I get blank stares from my NGO colleagues when I talk about this kind of stuff - but Tasha has helpfully written it out for all to read.
Some sections which I think are particularly important include:
"it’s also much bigger than Reform"
thinkingdoingchanging.com/2025/07/02/w...
Some sections which I think are particularly important include:
"it’s also much bigger than Reform"
thinkingdoingchanging.com/2025/07/02/w...
We need new strategies to respond to the far right
Global power is shifting, the authoritarian far right is winning, and civil society across the UK is not yet responding meaningfully to this new reality. All the causes we work on are in jeopardy (…
thinkingdoingchanging.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I get blank stares from my NGO colleagues when I talk about this kind of stuff - but Tasha has helpfully written it out for all to read.
Some sections which I think are particularly important include:
"it’s also much bigger than Reform"
thinkingdoingchanging.com/2025/07/02/w...
Some sections which I think are particularly important include:
"it’s also much bigger than Reform"
thinkingdoingchanging.com/2025/07/02/w...
Maybe this is due to my old age but I feel uneasy about this excessive focus on interiority when the world is, literally, burning. Sure, we need energy to keep ourselves going because our struggle won't be over in a matter of weeks, months or even years. But we still need to get things done, today.
July 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Maybe this is due to my old age but I feel uneasy about this excessive focus on interiority when the world is, literally, burning. Sure, we need energy to keep ourselves going because our struggle won't be over in a matter of weeks, months or even years. But we still need to get things done, today.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI and its use, as they currently stand, are only too regularly not only creating generations of people who can’t think or learn, but also wasting others’ time and energy.
AI and its use, as they currently stand, are only too regularly not only creating generations of people who can’t think or learn, but also wasting others’ time and energy.
'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI and its use, as they currently stand, are only too regularly not only creating generations of people who can’t think or learn, but also wasting others’ time and energy.
AI and its use, as they currently stand, are only too regularly not only creating generations of people who can’t think or learn, but also wasting others’ time and energy.