Lindsay Mitchell

The innocent pay while the guilty get it for nothing. What is it? (hat tip Reason)

Ron Mark, responding to criticism over his bill to reduce the age of criminal responsibility; “The current youth justice system is not work...

Well said United Future's Judy Turner. I couldn't even be bothered blogging about this silly bunch of meddlers, the National Counci...

I see Rodney is shaking a few trees. From a speech he delivered in Auckland today; Since the beginning of time our capital city has resent...

Just writing out a cheque last night and I thought, there's something vaguely familiar about the date. Is it somebody's birthday? In...

A new book about evolutionary psychology claims, Men like Barbie-doll blondes, beautiful people have more daughters and a mid-life crisis is...

I disagree with Tapu Misa most of the time but her column in today's NZ Herald strikes a chord. But I don't think the difference be...

This is an interesting site ; HAERE MAI TO ALL VISITORS! Welcome to the only website of its kind outside of Aotearoa (NZ). MIO (Maori-in-o...

US research shows that shaving weight off cars to make them more fuel efficient is resulting in many more lost lives. Additionally when dri...

According to the Sunday News ; Hardened criminals have been battling their way through winter behind bars by playing violent video games an...

There are communities in the Far North and on the East Cape where children have never seen their mum or dad - or even their grandparents - w...

Two paintings about to be entered into the Academy Gallery's Winter Exhibition. Grappling with names for them and pricing.

The German Greens have ideas that only the ACT party would articulate here. The World Socialist Web has published an article about their lat...

On NewstalkZB tomorrow after 11am. This week the Face Off panel is United future Leader Peter Dunne, Peter Dunne's youth MP and myself ...

The UK Conservatives are moving towards policy that favours married couples. According to leader David Cameron (Key will be paying close att...

Jim Flynn is defending his reported "eugenicist" comments at the Alliance blog. He puts the arguments from the 'real' ...

I couldn't resist this gorgeous photograph. Waharoa farmer Anne Barbour found it easy to forgive her first calving cow of the season fo...

A call for UK families to have no more than two children is perplexing; Families should restrict themselves to having a maximum of two chi...

Something for the Maori Party to think about. The 2005-06 rate of substantiated child abuse and neglect per 1,000 0-16 year-olds in Australi...

Australian-based Peter Saunders has launched a new book, The Government Giveth and the Government Taketh Away "We should be getting aw...