Lindsay Mitchell

Economist rates New Zealand 11th= in democracy index (left click to enlarge)

A research team led by the PM's husband Peter Davies has found that families are no better off financially than 20 years ago. The team ...

Brash in a Spectator interview two weeks ago; In the Spectator interview, he said that his overriding objective was to make New Zealand weal...

Not PC is looking for reasons to get excited about John Key but can't find any. I can't help him. But I can give him a few which ju...

Broadmindedness is not a characteristic I can lay claim to. I was sent the Investigate article about David Benson-Pope due for publication ...

This has revived my spirits slightly; More than 60 British officers, including two former chief constables, have joined Jack Cole's Law...

Don has resigned. I feel immensely sad and disappointed. It is one more nail in the coffin of politics for me. Update; Gerry Brownlee is sup...

This is a stunner, isn't it? Why do we accord these imbeciles any degree of respectability? The police, that is.....

Auckland Mayoral candidate talking sense here . And Stephen Berry's advocacy of legalisation of alternative drugs is not silly. I have w...

The Commerce Commission is costing the taxpayer 22 percent more than the year before with spending on staff increasing by 24 percent althoug...

See what my 12 year-old son brought home from school. I asked him, "Where's the other one?" "Which other one?" he re...

Maori are twice as likely to have substance abuse problems. The startling finding was revealed in statistical analysis of ‘Te Rau Hinengaro...

Labour will no doubt be watching this Stuff poll as it tries to decide whether to make supporting Bradford's Bill a conscience or party...

Angel Tree is a fund set up by the Prison Fellowship to provide, among other things, xmas gifts for prisoner's children. They are parti...

The number of births is the highest since 1992. The September 2006 year has just been released and the ethnicity breakdown is interesting. ...

While not entirely agreeing with this column by Marc Alexander (Trotter does occasionally criticise Labour) I rather enjoyed it and you mig...

In the run-up to Xmas I get jobs to paint children. Here's one in progress;

Further from Deborah Coddington's column; Here's a disturbing fact: in 2003 four of every five pregnant Asian women aborted their ba...

Deborah Coddington is defending her North and South piece on Asian crime in today's Herald on Sunday. Here's an excerpt; My sin was ...

Putting entire families into care is the next approach on the agenda for dealing with welfare and drug dependent parents with children. App...