Hi everyone
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Alistair Kitchen·Jun 19
I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Alistair Kitchen·Jun 14
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social I learned from the best
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Alistair Kitchen·Feb 9
The government hates protests because they give a glimpse of the pedestrianised city
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Alistair Kitchen·Jan 13
“We regret that our transparently racist act created division. And also that it predictably destroyed the thing it is our one job to protect.”
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Alistair Kitchen·Jan 13
Dare I ask why the Adelaide Festival Board, which oversees Adelaide Writers Week, featured zero writers?
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Alistair Kitchen·Jan 8
Hard to see the Adelaide Writers Week decision as anything other than appallingly racist, grotesquely illiberal.
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Alistair Kitchen·Dec 26
What a day of cricket
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Alistair Kitchen·Dec 22
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Alistair Kitchen·Dec 12
Trump's new travel policies send a clear message. For visitors to the US, self-censorship is your ticket to ride.
My piece in the Fin.
www.afr.com/world/north-...
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Alistair Kitchen·Nov 7
Man I know so many people who should quit their jobs and go do this instead
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Alistair Kitchen·Nov 2
Great essay here thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...
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Alistair Kitchen·Oct 20
I for one think it’s good Tame Impala now sounds like Enya