Lindsay Mitchell

Earlier in the week some bloggers were somewhat triumphant about John Key's stated intent to cut the number of public servants as repor...

New Zeal has a Penn and Teller video about Obama and his tax plans. Obama is featured telling a detractor facing higher taxes that he belie...

Media Release TREASURY FORECASTS BODE ILL FOR WELFARE BILL Thursday, November 13, 2008 A Treasury report released today forecasts unemployme...

Isn't it interesting that ACT was essentially formed out of Labour yet nobody ever entertains the idea that the party would do anything ...

This is a load of old bollocks. I wonder if the author actually lives here. Apparently the electorate threw out Labour because they weren...

Jane Clifton is channelling the arrogance of National in these comments; A political analyst is warning Act leader Rodney Hide not to overp...

The Maori Party have drafted an agreement with National and are now heading off to consult with members. No word on ACT's consultation ...

Is Key about to put a one-term MP, who has not even held the portfolio, associate or otherwise, in charge of the single biggest government ...

How does a party that believes in the power of nanny state to the extent that she can increase life expectancy, work constructively alongsid...

The Ministry of Social Development recently revamped its website . I have been looking for a picture to accompany their service descriptor. ...

It was Clark who began the practice of having Ministers outside of cabinet. Here she explains how that operates; HELEN New Zealand First is...

Thought that'd give the lefties a brief fright. Time for a ramble back. 25 years ago Roger Douglas, "Labour's Manurewa maveric...

Yesterday saw headlines that were various versions of "New Zealand moves to the right." I was going to comment on the laughability...

Sunday morning a little the worse for wear but with a life. As the song goes, regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mentio...

Here is the late political shift I blogged about on Tuesday. I am assuming this is the Fairfax-Nielsen poll as the DomPost doesn't actu...

Cactus has written an exceptional piece on the election of Obama. I have nothing more to offer than this comment just left at No Minister ;...

Here's the latest Maori Party policy. To gift $500 to parents of some 230,000 children 'living in poverty' and superannuitants,...

There is a late shift in the political breeze. Having campaigned in 2005 and 2008 I can tell you that there is more positivity towards ACT t...

In Australia Rupert Murdoch is railing against welfare dependency in the first of the Boyer Lectures. Meanwhile, back across the ditch in G...

The campaign is an experience that makes me even more than usually aware of how the vast majority of people are in socialism up to their nec...