Lindsay Mitchell

Pay and display machines are being blown up by 'vigilantes'in East Sussex, UK, because they are so unpopular. Seems a bit over the ...

Cinema: Parents parking kids, not cars Children as young as eight are being dumped at the cinema by their parents One of the lead stories in...

Here we go. National morphing into Labour. Jackie Blue positioning herself to be the next Minister of Women's Affairs. ACT should be put...

I had a flick through the UK report, Reforming Welfare , yesterday, looking for any comparative NZ data. This is all I found and it's fr...

National Party associate finance spokesman, Craig Foss , has an article in the Wall St journal. Well done. NCPA summarises it. Since the La...

A pregnant teenage heroin addict was remanded in the Invercargill district court in order for CYF to arrange treatment for her and her unbor...

From Scoop ; Following yesterday's removal of this final legal obstacle, CPAG is looking forward to its chance to argue that the governm...

The Maori Party would be amongst the strongest proponents of te reo. But now Tariana Turia is very angry about prisons having Maori names ...

The lucky British have a 'welfare nation' that is bigger than ours! With spending of 79 billion pounds, on a per head of population...

This post is an exercise in cheering myself up and finding something good to say about National. It's partly fiction. But it needn't...

Robson-on-Politics for; Mr Bolger promised an end to Rogernomics and won a mandate but the moment votes had been counted after the 1990 elec...

Policies not personalities. That's what we should be looking very closely at. Here's what Key said in his debut today; Personal free...

When I read this headline I expected a story about intervening when potential criminals were still very young children. I was wrong. Early i...

Maori Party Statement on the resignation of Don Brash; “As a party, we have stood firmly on our philosophy that we have practised in the Ho...

Another international conference is being held in Wellington today. It is about the FGC, or Family Group Conference, a process which was bor...

Here's a conference many taxpayers will be ecstatic about paying for; A conference looking at research into Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transg...

The Herald on Sunday summarises the Hager book; Hager says: "(Brash) gave the (welfare) job to an MP called Judith Collins, whose view...

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...