Lindsay Mitchell

How do these people survive? ONE Recently, when I went to Mc Donald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or...

I have seen no media reports about this . (Details here ) If Dyson wanted it in the news, it would be there. Almost looks as if the governme...

In Washington DC teacher unions are trying to stop a voucher system for the poorest black and Hispanic children. Yet 90 percent of parents ...

A troublesome 16 year-old schoolboy promises to "shit on" his teacher's lawn and waits outside his home to ostensibly do just...

From the NZ Herald editorial today, Act, however, must campaign in a way that does not make life difficult for National. Sir Roger and his ...

A comment from yesterday, The rate of crime is a function of the profits divided by the chance of being caught or killed. Also yesterday my ...

Yesterday I had just read a piece by Roger Kerr in the Dominion Post about the futility of Cullen's tax cuts - "Clayton's cuts...

Can anybody imagine the grief or anger of the relatives of Navtej Singh. In the Dominion Post there are pictures of the family of the polish...

Sometimes numbers just breeze right past me. Then I do a double-take and think twice. One such number just presented itself in a reply to a ...

That's put me over my limit. Can I manage two whole books in one year? I can generally get through one. Last year it was Rodney Hide...

The view of the author is that the privatisation process delivered benefits to: • ACC by creating a more efficient and focused organisation,...

A commenter from yesterday disagreed with my statement that National's recent record of getting people into the workforce is worse than ...

John Key was in Taranaki last night talking to supporters; ''I personally believe we're going to win the next election,'...

Outrageous. How should unhealthy food be regulated? Ban advertising during children's TV (1658 votes, 23.4%) Ban sports sponsorships (1...

My mother was a teacher. She had a habit (and still does) of pulling me up on grammatical errors. A favourite was my misuse of the word ...

This is a summary of some of the research into the effects of increasing benefit payment rates. It is from the Colorado Independence Institu...

According to the Dominion Post today a solo mother with two children on the domestic purposes benefit received $23,000 net a year - less th...

The Child Poverty Action Group begins its case against the government tomorrow. They want the In Work payment (now In Work Tax Credit) pai...

What a load of codswallop from Matt McCarten today. If he was right about ACT than I would be an utter misfit. I would never have been plac...

From an interview with the Sunday Star Times, Brash says while he was largely happy with National's policy platform in 2005, seeing it ...