Lindsay Mitchell

(Couldn't resist this photo from the NZ Herald ): Right in this town where we are today, Moab, Utah, the local school has surrendered it...

“ "Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”" (Clue; It wasn...

During the week I saw this headline; "Abused kids should be taken from parents, claims US professor". Dr Schmitt was brought to NZ...

The NZ Herald has a piece about the myth of ageing bringing unhappiness. Apparently many people expect to get unhappier as they age. Not me...

Here James Bartholomew briefly puts his theory about the reason so many people are on an invalidity benefit in the UK. NZ has the same prob...

Not content to bitch about their own lives, some women have to bitch about men's lives as well. You are not doing enough housework. It...

Green MP Metiria Turei has had a private member's bill to introduce medicinal cannabis pulled from the ballot. It might stand a chance o...

Statistics New Zealand has just released the 2005 abortion statistics which show a drop in the overall rate. One thing noticeable in the ta...

(Don't call me ageist. A "mature" friend sent this to me.)

Oh Crikey has a post about abortion and his outrage at the government funding overseas Family Planning agencies which provide abortions. Som...

An interesting interview with Jeremy Lott, the author of a new book, "Defending Hypocrisy". After interviewing a number of people...

The NCPA summarises the evidence; An absent father is something that money can't replace.....

TV3 had some pretty awful stats tonight about the number of people awaiting trial who are realeased on bail. In the past year just under 10,...

1,800 Wellingtonians (or around 1.8 percent of the local population) are being dropped from specialist waiting lists. Waiting lists have bee...

I always fancied myself as a highly cultured person. Now I have proof, thanks to Statistics NZ . But even more cultured than me are all thos...

The Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Information Matching) Amendment Bill is going through Parliament currently. Maori Party co-l...

Ireland are planning reforms to their welfare assistance for one parent families. There are currently some 80,000 lone parents - almost 98%...

The NCPA reports on Sweden's "cradle to the grave" welfare system; * Sweden's slope became most slippery from 1960 to...

Don't know what my electorate MP is up to today. During a snap debate over Auckland's power problem he repeatedly addressed the dep...

As best as I can make out, the Australian federal (central) government has overturned the Australian Central Territory government's civi...