Lindsay Mitchell

This is a must read from the UK, bearing in mind that our Children's Commissioner, with plenty of support from CYF, the judiciary and ot...

Tut tut. Here I go "citing partisan reports" again. I can't resist Thomas Sowell . (Make this relevant by substituting Maori t...

I didn't know that the S word couldn't be broadcast in the US. Apparently the Federal Communications Commission has banned it; This...

There is plenty of analysis showing the effects of raising the minimum wage to be detrimental. People who advocate for raising minimum wages...

It's a Big night in our house tonight. Supernova final. Haven't missed a show. I'll be glued to the set and heaven help anyone ...

John Key should be on the Labour benches. If he assumes the leadership of National I will at least cease to be conflicted over my support fo...

This is very sad. I hope they can find a happy outcome. Statement from Don Brash re request for privacy Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 1:41 p...

This time from Scotland , A £100 million, ten-year government health drive has failed to improve Scotland's diet, according to a damning...

More on life expectancies. Researchers have found a more than thirty-year difference in life expectancies amongst Americans; At one end of ...

New research based on data from the UK and US shows that women who have less than an 18 month interval between babies have a higher mortali...

Well, I guess they asked for it when they went after Labour and the Greens but I find myself marvelling at Labour's hypocrisy whereby th...

It's still a buzz when the mainstream media publish one of my pieces. This one, Sunday's Babies , was picked up by the Hawkes Bay To...

The writer of the DomPost editorial and myself are on the same wave-length. These appear together today. (Left click on the editorial to en...

Dear Wellington City Council While I was visiting your library this morning a parking attendant placed a $40 fine under my windscreen wiper....

In her regular interview with Paul Holmes this morning the Prime Minister decided to turn the Libertarianz' pledge-card court-case into ...

Inadvertently Sue Kedgley can be very funny. She was talking about her train trip up country to collect petition signatures and how there wa...

1) What has our country achieved on employment and poverty issues over the last 12 years? 2) What have we learned? 3) What do you think will...

I have suggested before that women on the methadone programme should also receive a contraception injection as a condition of participating....

I am assuming that the Progressive Enterprise workers are striking because of low pay (and some regional parity issues). Here's what I d...

This is a comment from a reader on Krimsonlake's blog ; The problem with trying to deal with the problem of people taking advantage of a...