Lindsay Mitchell

The great and good welfare state. “Gordon Brown and his ministers try to sound tough on welfare reform. But the facts show that after 11 yea...

Under National, funding to hospices will be significantly increased. John Key promised this yesterday. Pause. Remember that just recently t...

The headline, Booze, drugs kill more drivers , is not news to anyone following trends. The number of drug and alcohol related road deaths i...

Now the claimant is hardly reliable but somebody else must be able to confirm this. Hekia Parata, standing in Mana, is asking people to giv...

" If I can't trust Winz who else can I turn to for support?" How tragically pathetic. The speaker is a Maori girl who doesn...

Notice three things; 1/ A ban on smoking in bars 2/ The growth of local retail liquor outlets 3/ An increase in family violence They are con...

Thanks to you all for continuing to read this blog. Last month visits went over 5,000 for the first time! Building blog readership is a hard...

Go here to tell TV3 what you think about them kowtowing to Clark and Key. Borrow my message if you haven't the time to write your own. ...

The good judge speaks out again. Principal Youth Court judge Andrew Becroft makes an occasional habit of grabbing some headlines. But this ...

15 March 2007 Sue Bradford has confirmed parents will not be able to smack their children after her bill is passed. When questioned again to...

I used this graph recently to discuss the claim that the economic reforms had caused an increase in child deaths from maltreatment. Unfortun...

Last Sunday morning we woke to find David's car had been broken into, along with five others in the street. This is our third experience...

(Robert's photo-shopping)

Chris Trotter has probably done ACT a favour today by attacking them in his Dominion Post column. His point of objection - ACT's slogan...

If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring...

Katherine Rich delivered her valedictory speech to parliament yesterday after three terms as a National MP. Rich said her "annus horri...

People I talk with or listen to are heartily sick of politics without policy. There is no sense of enjoyment or participation about the comi...

Somewhere a teacher works in an extremely high risk industry by night. Her health and her safety are however her business and so is how she ...

It seems to me that nobody would willingly argue with the Sensible Sentencing Trust's championing of victim's rights. However also g...

According to the NZ Herald today; The Maori Party, meanwhile, reiterated its hopes of removing gst on food and scrapping tax on income unde...