Lindsay Mitchell

Very sad news from Kismet Farm . Another treasure gone. I wish I had been paying better attention.

A couple of interesting pieces from the US NCPA Daily Digest today; This one describes another massive waste of money targeted at the poor ...

(Arrived in my inbox yesterday. No idea who created it.)

According to the NZ Herald ; The six-member alternative group has been set up by the Catholic aid and social justice agency Caritas, the Ang...

The 2010 Quaker lecture is being delivered by Professor Kevin Clements, a member of the Quakers and wearer of other assorted peace mantles....

Two posts from the last two days have comments that have vanished. There is no remaining 'deleted' message showing who deleted the c...

I have been playing with Statistics NZ's table builder and the conviction and sentencing statistics released Monday. Table builder allo...

Just released from the OECD database (despite the data being 5 years-old): The data is sourced from the International Crime and Victim Surv...

A presenter at the Welfare Working Group forum last month was Donna Matahaere-Atariki. Her subject ; What sort of society do we want? And ho...

Radio Live asked for comment on the perennial child support debt problem canvassed again yesterday in the Sunday Star Times. The typical r...

Absolutely .

Had a call from National Radio yesterday looking for opinion from 'the right' that would support national standards. It wasn't g...

Have just updated and re-templated the art blog with pieces from my last exhibition and other commissions. My Andean Woman was accepted f...

According to the New Zealand Herald ; There are currently 9131 beds catering a muster of about 8400 prisoners, which is forecast to rise to ...

Left to me the TV news wouldn't go on in the evening. But life is a compromise. (At least mine is and those I have observed that are not...

Statistics NZ has released a paper about measuring the effects of the ETS. In summary; Key features to note about the measurement of the im...

Today we have stories about a couple of creeps who both need a good kick where it hurts most. The first is the re-telling of an incident th...

The government's decision to ban smoking in prisons is not an easy one to support from any kind of liberal perspective. Health-wise it a...

I am struggling through a highly technical paper about the role of incarceration and child support in the labour force participation rate of...

Does someone risk secreting drugs on their own person on behalf of another? Clearly if good money is offered, yes they do. But into a dance ...