Lindsay Mitchell

Richard Worth has cut and paste my press release for his newsletter, News Worthy . Good. But here is the rest of it for anybody interested ...

The Australian government is moving to impose alcohol bans on aboriginal communities and make receipt of welfare contingent on parents gett...

What is the rationale for the current voting age? Any ideas? Sue Bradford wants it lowered to 16. Strikes me that the Greens would be the m...

This is a disgusting example of the dumbed-down world in which we live. A student thinking for himself and backing it up with research is os...

When I read the headline, STATES FACE DECISIONS ON WHO IS MENTALLY FIT TO VOTE, I balked. Surely people couldn't be denied a vote based...

Excellent analogy from Bob McCoskrie in the NZ Herald this morning; "With drinking we're saying it's not the drinking it's...

The Australian government is about to put up to 80,000 more people on work for the dole programmes. This is a big undertaking given there a...

Oh Dear. I made a blue. Here's an 'anonymous' comment from yesterday. Lindsay, you've blatantly misrepresented Hyman's a...

That's what the DomPost headline says. Truly. Now a group of neuroscientists and economists at the University of Oregon, Eugene, has te...

Alinghi boss Ernesto Bertarelli has refused permission for the waka to accompany Team New Zealand to the starts of the America's Cup. I...

Dope users ignore police to buy supplies . We are supposed to be incredulous that people who went to buy from a tinnie house have walked pas...

Radical feminists love to prattle about the value of unpaid work. Such martyrdom going on behind four walls and no financial appreciation. T...

With a depressing sense of deja vu I read this headline yet again; Local Authority Expenditure Rises It never drops. Here are the figures f...

Saturday's DomPost editorial was a rather funny parody about missing clauses from the proposed minor party Code of Conduct ; We will be...

Creative New Zealand shouldn't exist. It is not the role of government to pay for art. But that it should be paying for the production ...

An article in the SST alerted me to the new advice being given by the UK govt. If you want to verify something best go straight to the horse...

Here is some refreshing disagreement between health board members talking about health solutions for the poor, Maori and the aged. When you...

All my careful studying of form and breeding and performance came to fruition this week when I picked six winners in a row at Forbury Park a...

I've just finished reading Nga Iwi o te Motu, 1000 years of Maori History, by Michael King. We hear plenty about the Pakeha stereotype ...

There were 400 more abortions in 2006 than in 2005 - a 2.3% increase. All ethnicities experienced increases ACCEPT ASIANS. The largest incr...