Lindsay Mitchell

It isn't unusual to hear oldies bleating about Working For Families and how much money their adult children are getting that they don...

In regard to welfare reform my focus has always been on the DPB for the reasons that 1/ children are being disadvantaged, sometimes very bad...

There is opinion, and there is wilful misrepresentation. Yesterday, Key-the-moderate was engaged in the age-old right wing election year rhe...

Most journalists do not understand the statistics surrounding benefits. Here is an example of more mis-reporting and emotionalism on welfar...

This word extreme is a strange one. On the one hand New Zealanders seem to embrace the idea of extreme activities or extreme sports or extr...

I suppose you and I will be paying for this : A new parenting programme targeted at Maori tells them they are inherently loving and nurturin...

Labour's post-conference pitiable policy announcements have depressed me. What will it take to break the accursed connection between kee...

The bad news is that the number of jobs continues to fall. The good news is at a slower rate. “What we are seeing in the March 2010 year is...

Bits and pieces this morning. The Welfare State We're In looks at welfare in Italy: In Italy, pensions are the biggest item. Social ass...

Reading Helen Kelly in the DomPost this morning it struck me that many people do not fundamentally understand what WFF consists of. Kelly de...

So Sir Paul Callaghan makes a point from the view of scientist. But there is another aspect to this statement which is just as worthy of de...

Here's a letter I sent earlier this week to the DomPost. Hardly a surprise it went unprinted as I was criticising one of their columnist...

Labour has announced the establishment of a Ministry for Children - if it gets elected. Labour's chances of getting re-elected are smal...

Actually, sorry, I can't be bothered. Move on, move on, nothing to see here. 4 percent growth ???? Hahahahaha. So I was nagging Dave Arm...

...or at least talking (around 44:00) about it. In the studio with Sean Plunket on NewstalkZB today, Key brought up the issue of welfare re...

Reported in NZ Herald today: KiwiSaver worked well, he said "because the money comes out of your pay packet and once that happens, peo...

Just listening to Mike Hosking interviewing John Key, and on the back of a Horizon Poll that shows ACT support up to 5.3 percent, Hosking a...

If the seemingly unimpeachable Starship hospital is going to use its admission statistics to lobby for legislation (which they are increasi...

Last week Woodham told it like it is. Any one who sees with their naked eyes instead of through bleeding-heart lens' knows that her sla...

What appalled me, and should disturb all National and John Key supporters, is Key's refusal to meet with Brash to discuss the Taskforce ...