Lindsay Mitchell

This is not an overweight child. It's a chubby baby for god's sake. Unfortunately it is running alongside a headline Number of obese...

Mary Wilson, trying to emulate an abrasive Sean Plunket on National Radio this morning, makes the utterly asinine suggestion that ACT shoul...

I am alerted to the following because I subscribe to a community and volunteer sector newsletter; Changes to arts funding announced Creative...

Sean Plunket is now writing a column for the DomPost. His first provoked a comment from me which was published yesterday. Not on-line, I wa...

According to the latest Horizon poll of 3,673 voters ACT appears to be losing support to National; National has 30% of decided voters (3% d...

Statistics New Zealand has published updated material it provided to the Taskforce 2025 including many interesting tables comparing labour ...

I am not voting for a mayor and struggling to find names to tick for any of the other FIVE selection processes. God knows why there are so...

David Garrett is now deciding whether to quit parliament completely or return as an independent MP. "But it seems to me the people elec...

Australians are debating voluntary euthanasia. Fourteen years after the Northern Territory became the first place in the world to legalise ...

Michael Laws has put the Garrett business into perspective perfectly , and prompted me to give it a shot. Garrett did a very stupid, calcula...

The High Court case featuring caregivers providing care to their disabled adult children is currently being conducted in Auckland. The care...

There is a certain useful phrase about rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic (and I am not referring to the post on Big News about ACT). No...

I wonder what Frank Macskasy was sentenced to? Update: the answer is here.

Will we ever hear Treasurer Bill English saying this ? "People think it's a lifestyle choice just to stay on out-of-work benefits; ...

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499 to $699, depending ...

The only aspect of the David Garrett assault conviction story that interests me is, why has it come out now? Are we in for another morbidly...

From Simon Collin's article it becomes apparent that what Cindy Kiro said last week was misreported by Catherine Delahunty. She isn...

On first reading this is a heartbreaker but on second thoughts it might be the best thing that could have happened. Let's hope Paula Ben...

Green MP Catherine Delahunty made the following statement about an address by Cindy Kiro to the shadow Welfare Working Group last Thursday;...

David Craig, senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland, has has written an interesting piece about the state subsidising w...