Lindsay Mitchell

Wouldn't you know it. In a week when someone gets $10,000,000 mistakenly put in their account, I score a packet of wrongly priced sausag...

Speaking on behalf of the Maori Party; "We agree with the UN when its says that the severe pain caused by tasers could be seen as a fo...

A near dis-arse-ter trying to add a bog-roll - sorry - blogroll. I had to upgrade my blog first. What should have been a three minute exerci...

Watching TV3 news last night we saw Mt Albert Labour candidate David Shearer putting his foot right down his throat inferring that growing u...

Talk about betting on two flies climbing up a wall. The Australians are now gambling on the unemployment rate. I was turning that one over ...

Between 2003 and 2005 hundreds of e-mails were stolen from the Leader of the Opposition. You are all familiar with the subsequent details. M...

This a is a great quote from Garth George's column today; I'm not a bit surprised that Mr Dunne has expressed his displeasure at Ms...

What a colossal waste of parliamentary time. Ex unionist, Darien Fenton, asked 140 separate written parliamentary questions about the numbe...

Just released by Statistics New Zealand ... the men are catching up: A newborn girl can expect to live an average of 82.2 years and a newbo...

An advocacy manager for Unicef NZ has written a piece in this morning's DomPost resisting the suggestion that more 12-13 year-olds be d...

Taking the following report purely at face value , can you imagine how aghast people would have been if they could have foreseen this sort ...

On Thursday I wrote a post about a comment made on Maori Television on Wednesday night. I was very glad to get the following e-mail yesterd...

As it stands Rachael Brown is a lawless menace. It would appear nothing can be done to stop her drinking and diving. She was sentenced to a...

From time to time I watch Maori Television . The quality is often above anything else on offer. People have serious and extended discussions...

When I had just turned 16, school cert sat, studying over, summer break stretching ahead, my friend and I decided to head off down the South...

Warning; If you are a parent the following could make you very angry. First an extract from a paper that appears in the July 2008 Social Po...

Schools are pleased that the NCEA results are being statistically represented in a way that is fairer. Instead of percentages being based on...

Readers know that I am not a supporter of 'three strikes' but any bill that is before select committee deserves a thorough investiga...

The relationship between blogs and the mainstream media is a developing one. The readership of my blog is not particularly high. I don't...

Every time I start thinking about what I want to say on my blog today I get a headache. Perhaps it's anger, or frustration, or maybe I s...