Lindsay Mitchell

A very funny piece of satire posted by Adolf at No Minister reminded me of a few thoughts I had had regarding the Massachusetts victory (is...

Media Release RECORD RISE IN SICKNESS BENEFIT NUMBERS Friday, January 22, 2010 Statistics released today by the Ministry of Social Developm...

Another day of reading the news and shaking the head. Keys says if GST rises, so will benefits. That's only fair. A wealth of research ...

The state of Victoria has a higher population than NZ but fewer road fatalities. Last year they had a record low in road deaths. But a terri...

What a great analogy for well-intentioned policy gone awry; the hallmark of big government. The plan ... The outcome .... (Outcome pinched f...

Air France-KLM is going to begin charging obese people 75 percent of the cost of buying a ticket for the adjacent seat. But I wonder how th...

So, Stuff tells us, 9 people have been on the unemployment benefit for more than 20 years. This unimpressive piece of trivia hides more tha...

ACT has just issued a press release entitled; 'Three strikes' to become law. ACT Leader Rodney Hide was today pleased to announce t...

Apparently a new evaluation of the long-standing early education programme for low income children in the US has shown that there is very l...

Last year I wrote to each of the 21 DHBs and the Ministry of Health asking questions about the Methadone Programme under the Official Infor...

Kittens are born...and the next minute they are ready to leave home, or their drawer. One is still looking for a someone who will love and c...

Is $500,000 'generous' ? It's only around 30 cents a household. Perhaps 'generous' needs to be prefixed with 'relati...

The NZ Herald reports on the associate Minister of Social Development strongly disagreeing with the Minister of Social Development over the...

I am hoping to attract MacDoctor's attention and expert input. Health is not a sector I have studied in any depth. So I stand to be cor...

A few days back I did a post about Maori women and smoking. A belated comment came in and I am going to highlight it because it rings true ...

Over at The Standard they are talking about unemployment causing crime again. A Government that really wanted to reduce crime, rather than ...

Crusader Rabbit drew my attention to the last of these graphs . I am including the two others. The first (or a statistical variation of) i...

When I read this headline, Socialist soaps wanted , I thought it was about cleaning agents. And for the life of me I couldn't imagine w...

Apparently , based on tax files; Americans gave 1.60 percent of their aggregate personal income to charity, more than double the 0.73 percen...

This post could get me banned from Red Alert because people do get banned from there, quite frequently. Yesterday Trevor Mallard posted a b...