Alistair Kitchen

The government hates protests because they give a glimpse of the pedestrianised city

“We regret that our transparently racist act created division. And also that it predictably destroyed the thing it is our one job to protect.”

Here is what I wrote them:

Hard to see the Adelaide Writers Week decision as anything other than appallingly racist, grotesquely illiberal.

What a day of cricket

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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-...

Man I know so many people who should quit their jobs and go do this instead

Great essay here thebaffler.com/salvos/belit...

I for one think it’s good Tame Impala now sounds like Enya

I have a piece in the @thesaturdaypaper.com.au today about how superannuation disadvantages women www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Read @sarahschwartz.bsky.social personal letter in The Guardian today | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In today’s @crikey.com.au, I wrote about the furore over Albanese’s appearance at the UK Labour conference. The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...

"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend. www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...

I’m actually well-regarded and successful.

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I wrote about the man everyone loves to hate, @mattyglesias.bsky.social . www.kitchencounter.blog/p/mr-opinion

Wrote this the day Mahmoud Khalil was arrested. I was later deported for it. Today a US federal judge confirmed what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/alistair...

Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social "What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist" Please consider letting others know that this exists. pen.org/what-to-do-i...

A lot of non-Americans feel embarrassed by their own fixation with the US. They shouldn’t.

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From sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

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Australia takes in roughly the same number of immigrants as the UK but has less than half the base population.

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Rally tomorrow morning: 9am at MUP Hear from literary giants, show your support, #savemeanjin Details at savemeanjin.org

Extraordinary. I have co-signed openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture

popularism at work

Holy shit

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Watch journalist @alistairkitchen.bsky.social recount being detained for 12 hours, interrogated, his device searched at LAX in June, and later deported over his reporting. This is yet another sign that press freedom is under threat amid growing political repression and democratic decline in the US.

"No one is safe until we’re all safe," Australian reporter @alistairkitchen.bsky.social who was detained by CBP at LAX for 12 hours in June, questioned about his political views, had his device searched, and eventually deported, tells @pressfreedomtracker.us about the harrowing, traumatic experience

"It’s pretty clear to me that the First Amendment protections of journalists and non-citizens are not nearly as firm as we’d like to believe," Australian writer @alistairkitchen.bsky.social, who was deported after interrogation at LAX in June, tells the Tracker. Read and watch our interview.