Lindsay Mitchell

Here’s an editorial worth posting in full. It deals with the incessant criticism from socialists and statists that individualists and freedo...

This is a comment from JC posted at Home Paddock well worthy of further exposure. It covers quite a complicated picture succinctly; In 1960...

Remember Leigh Sturgiss? She used to spend her days worrying us to death of the dangers of smoking. Now she has re-invented herself as the g...

Gang members facing fines for wearing patches in Wanganui's Victoria Avenue are taking legal action to stop Work and Income from making ...

So we can't stop gangs and their women from bludging off us wholesale BUT we can take away their patches. Yes. Just confirmed in parliam...

The women (attached to gang members) that Housing New Zealand are attempting to evict from a Taita street are taking legal action. We ain...

Some interesting divorce data has just been released from Statistics NZ; Analysis of divorce statistics by year of marriage shows that ab...

I have been playing with some of the regional benefit data released for March 2009. These figures show the total number of people on main be...

According to the Minister of Social Development, "One in five New Zealanders has some form of disability, and that number is expected ...

No. Not of the 'musical' kind. Rather,the banging-it-against-a-brick-wall variety. I think I am possibly not shouting loud enough or...

Good news. A new MP, Kanwal Bakshi has a property that was being operated as a brothel. That's what we need . More property-owning MPs.

Chris Trotter writes in today's DomPost that Mr Key and his right wing mates are showing signs that they are about to get rid of "w...

Media Release UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT - NUMBERS ALMOST DOUBLE Thursday, April 30, 2009 Data just released by the Ministry of Social Development...

The net is great in terms of information accessibility and currency BUT sometimes one stumbles across depictions that really can mislead; I...

The NZ Institute (funded by business subscription) is saying scrap the tax cuts and think about property taxes to raise additional revenue....

Why we miss Richard Prebble. In the OECD only two countries owe more money per person than we do; Iceland which is bankrupt and Spain where ...

The Families Commission is once again wearing its utopian fool's hat for all to see; “Healthy, positive relationships within families do...

Australian Community Services Minister describes the size of Australia's child abuse problem as "horrific"; Ms Macklin said m...

I was ruminating over how people, especially feminists, might respond to an equivalent type of ad appearing in a men's centre newsletter...

In the midst of economic woe, piggy pandemics and leaky-house inducing weather, something to laugh about is needed. Anything to laugh about...