Lindsay Mitchell

It's my view that New Zealanders have a strong sense of inevitability about the eligibility age for Super going up. So for the life of...

My Friday June 8 Truth column is now on-line What a hullabaloo the issue of gay adoption causes. So many people theorise about its merit...

  Bob McCoskrie sent me a two-pager explaining why libertarians should not support gay marriage. Full of woolly thinking. Bob and I agree ...

Gordon Campbell agrees with John Key. The qualifying age for Super should stay at 65. Here's one of the reasons why: "...there’...

What educational failure looks like

The government thinks it can get money out of a DPB recipient's partner if she (usually) is done for fraudulently claiming a single par...

One of my all time favourites.  Sometimes I read stuff that just riles me anew. By now I should be de-sensitised to emotive (yet essential...

I have written in favour of raising the Super entitlement age a number of times. I once made the suggestion that as Super is linked to the ...

"The vast majority of child abuse is perpetrated by men." That's according to an editorial in this morning's Herald on S...

An elderly man from Stratford is stopped by the police around 2 a.m. And is asked where he is going at this time of night. ...

This is a fascinating piece distributed by the NCPA . Apparently people who don't have children are 'free-riders' and socialised...

At the weekend it was Metiria Turei bollocking Paula Bennett for "plunging the knife" into solo mums. Today it's Sue Bradford...

  Last week's Truth column about TV7 and others here. I see Bob Jones is now writing a weekly column for the NZ Herald and Rodney H...

I'm not particularly interested in the Monarchy but I am in social change. Statistics New Zealand put together this pictorial for the Q...

More discussion with Mr Puddleglum which you can ignore if you are not interested: "Second, I see your graphs (on your blog) confirm...

The following is posted to support a discussion I am having elsewhere . The Political Scientist is arguing, or seems to be, that teenage bir...

When you toot a horn you startle and momentarily distract every other driver or pedestrian in the vicinity. Hence Officially: Using the h...

This poor bastard has had enough.  (Hat tip Sean Fitzpatrick)

None of this raises eyebrows any more. There are loads more culprits just getting away with it. Just having the luck scales tip their way....

For the 'sky is falling' types a paper released by Statistics NZ today describes 'crowding ' since 1921. "The 1921 C...