Lindsay Mitchell

Fifth Columnist of the Year – Michael Bassett In 'The Hollow Men' - a book filled with skull-duggery and political intrigue Fairfax...

Stuff reports from 1996 to 2005, total crime committed by youths remained static at about 31,000 recorded offences according to the report ...

The NZ Law Society has slammed the amendments to Sue Bradford's repeal of section 59 bill saying they create more uncertainty and appea...

The government's having a hard time solving the meth problem because the government helped create it. So says Radley Balko of Reason in ...

China has imposed new restrictions on prospective foreign adopters. They can't be too old, too fat, too depressed or too ugly. (It'...

Reading about the proposed ban on party pills on the front page of the DomPost I learn that they are used by one in five New Zealanders . O...

An anonymous commentor has suggested I lodge an OIA request under "code 38" to find out how many people have moved off the DPB and...

Dear Editor, You report a fall in DPB numbers (DomPost, Dec 19) to below 100,000 "for the first time since 1993" . The reasons why...

According to NewstalkZB, in the wake of the Ipswich murders,UK Minister for Constitutional Affairs, Harriet Harman, is considering making it...

Massey University researchers find that in poor schools as many as one in four children are incapable of learning. "Where there is a l...

From Richard Long's DomPost column today; The media frequently refer to ACT as "Far Right". I remember vividly my own mother s...

Middle-aged male? You're a suspect. In profiling rapists who use drugs to sedate their victims an expert says; Mr Henwood says drug-rap...

Would you want to have a conversation with someone whose computer just told you it was monitoring your call for lies? I have Skype but if I...

I think I will start of list of "purple policies" - those that are a combination of, or common to, both the red and blue parties. ...

What d'you know? "Unlimited access to drugs" in prison. Not long ago I raised this subject and was told by Crasster that, ...

When you read or hear about recorded crime continuing to trend down, as publicised by Statistics New Zealand today, bear the following in m...

In NZ we ignore it too. In fact we positively encourage the "huge gorilla" in the room by aiding and abetting it.

If you still enjoy your butter and full milk, STOP, right now. That's today's message from one of Nanny's little helpers. For ...

Here's National being more authoritarian and illiberal than even Jim Anderton. Does Otago National MP Jacqui Dean really think that ban...

The soon-to-be-introduced roadside testing for impairment from drug-taking is quite extraordinary. I don't accept what the police are s...