Lindsay Mitchell

People are understandably skeptical about the reported unemployment rate. The rate is produced by the Household Labour Survey which intervie...

The British government has instructed council- tax inspectors to use satellite photography to find out if people have added extensions or de...

Is there a better example of irrationality than the craze for bottled water? The Earth Policy Institute of Washington says; The global cons...

No, like this.

Roger Kerr, NZBR, assesses economic growth, freedom and outlook in this article ; "New Zealand greatly improved its rankings for econom...

By contrast, here is what the Scotsman is saying about old-age pensions. Unfortunately the full article is premium content but you get the g...

Good on Don Brash for putting the focus back on welfare. National are pledging to "put some flesh" on the bones of welfare policy ...

A survey shows 88 percent of Kiwis believe the state should provide for their retirement. The capacity of the human mind to fly in the face...

From the good news files; From the Adam Smith Institute's We Told You So department comes the news that serious violent crime has fall...

The Australian think-tank, the Centre for Independent Studies has announced the establishment of a NZ arm. It will initially focus on tax a...

Professor David Fergusson is in the news for reporting findings about the incidence of partner violence. Fergusson should be commended for ...

Ronald Bailey describes how MRI testing reveals men enjoy retribution more than women. This kind of information about how men and women tend...

Brief history. In 1996 President Clinton scrapped AFDC, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (think DPB) and replaced it with TANF (Temp...

Diver, Robert Hewitt , has been found alive after spending 72 hours in the water. Fantastic. Here's hoping he makes a full recovery.

Unlike Tariana Turia , I do not think teenage pregnancy is a good thing. This is a link to some research which is back in the US news today...

Just released from Statistics NZ comes the December 2005 quarterly employment survey. Of note is total paid hours worked has hardly changed...

useful acronyms; SINBAD Single-income, no boyfriend and desperate. SITCOM Single-income, two children, oppressive mortgage. And word meaning...

New research from Finland examines the contribution of lone parenthood and economic difficulties to smoking. 15 percent of married mothers ...

The Young Nats have also noticed the new Working for Families ad and issued this press release. "Most young people will recognise what ...

My eleven year-old is bent over his guitar working on Joe Walsh's riff from "Life in the Fast Lane". He does this constantly b...