Lindsay Mitchell

Following on from the last post, in 1888 another character toured the country having a look at the poor. He was Duncan McGregor, the Inspect...

That's the title of an extraordinary article in today's DomPost. It makes for compelling reading. The writer, Martin van Beynen and...

I didn't know my husband read gossip columns. He telling me something passably interesting about Rodney Hide being spotted craning his n...

One of these is Goldie Hawn. Who are the other two?

Oswald's been fantasizing about Father's Day. But by the sound of things it's about as far-fetched as this one.

When writer Charles Murray last visited NZ talking about the incentives inherent in any state welfare system and the problems with benefits ...

Leo Leitch will be familiar to people who read letters-to-the-editor. His opposition to abortion is a recurring theme. He reluctantly suppor...

One could be forgiven for feeling like we live in an increasingly violent, crime-ridden country based on the events of the past few weeks. T...

On the tenth anniversary of the US welfare reforms Cathy Young writes in Reason; Paradoxically, antiwelfare-reform feminists, most of whom ...

Statistics New Zealand usually put out a "Facts about Fathers" release for Father's Day. This year, 2006, they are saying , T...

A number of Primary Schools were doing a project on "The Sea". Kids were asked to draw pictures, or write about their experiences....

Apparently new research shows most New Zealanders approve of stay-at-home mums. That's all well and good but what do they think about u...

The Dominion Post reports Social Development Minister David Benson-Pope saying, The Government was paying out $1.2 million a year less in be...

A new plan drawn up by UK Minister for Constitutional Affairs, Harriet Harman is grossly intrusive. There and here Labour is slipping back...

It's always a risky business for charities to get involved in politics. Of course they are free to, just as I am free to withdraw my sup...

A few weeks back I posted about the increase in female violence in Timaru. Now it seems their female drink-driving rate is rising pushing th...

This awful case of the 17 year-old killed in the security van throws up a number of culprits; The killer and any accomplices obviously, the ...

Oswald asks how our high school preganacy rate compares to the one at Canton High, Ohio. Unless individual high schools or colleges keep dat...

Here's a story from an Ohio High School where one in seven girls is pregnant. The school has preached abstinence-only. Like any other ...

On the subject of the 2005 election spending Bill English writes ; What About The Three Blind Mice? The next episode of this drama will test...