Lindsay Mitchell

HLFS (Household Labour Force Survey) defined unemployment is at its lowest rate since the survey started in 1986. Then, under 7 percent of ...

Don Brash is suggesting raising and lowering the tax on petrol in order to control spending and inflation. I bet the oil industry are impre...

And just talking about 'can do' countries. I see the US is going to allow entry to the badly malformed Samoan baby that this stingy,...

That's the title of the first post from Rodney Hide for some time. I hope he will be posting regularly. Rodney, the only libertarian in...

Although outcomes are rated as 'good', waiting times for health treatment in Sweden are now the longest in Europe. Long waits are a ...

The United Kingdom now has a Libertarian Party. But here are five reasons (presented by the winner of the Libertarian Alliance Chris Tame Pr...

The number of abortions has risen again. From 2003 it had dropped but the total for 2006 - 17,934 - represents a 2.2% increase on 2005. The ...

What a mixed up and conflicted society we live in. It seems to boil down to not so much a breakdown between the genders but the different am...

This judge is wasting his time; Meanwhile, an unemployed Nelson man charged over the assault of two 19-year-olds at Pioneers Park has been g...

This appeared in today's Dominion Post. I am sure some of you will want to respond to letter@dompost.co.nz (Left click to enlarge); Dear...

What words could do any kind of justice to describing this sort of atrocity? I can't find them. But I have two thoughts. How will Iraqi...

Is this National promising to build more prisons or prison capacity? If it is, why don't they spell it out. Can nobody speak plain Engl...

From the USA Today ; A record number of active-duty soldiers killed themselves last year, according to The Washington Post. The paper cites ...

One of the reasons for the increasing ferocity of youth crime is the breakdown of the family and the dysfunction of relationships within wha...

According to Jim Anderton, Around 1.2 people out of every hundred thousand are homicide victims. That is a significant drop from around 1.5...

I originally wrote this post in June last year but I never hit the publish button. Some conceited streak in me must have worried about givi...

John Key's speech. I am genuinely pleased Key focussed on young, problem people although I think Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft's ...

Here is an excerpt from a speech ACC Minister Maryan Street delivered on Saturday. I believe there is a legitimate place for the use of law...

Imagine waking up one day to find that you have become a cinema. On Saturday I received a letter from the Wellington City Council addressed ...

So says the editor of the Sunday Star Times; The Right has found a heavy club to beat the government with: a referendum on smacking at the ...