Lindsay Mitchell

This blinkered, rigid 'philosophical' idea that food shouldn't be played with is quite awful. It pains me to read the silly opi...

Jacinda Ardern, Labour spokesperson for welfare, wrote an article , Welfare of the nation , which appeared in last week's Truth. Not...

MSD has just released the Household Income Report for 2012. It's as up-to-date as it can be after surveying, analysing and publishing, ...

Reading through a paper about the high teen birth rate in the US and why it matters, linked to by Eric Crampton earlier this week, I cam...

(Don't you hate those trendy media phrases that develop?)

This column, by Massey University tax lecturer Deborah Russell, appeared in the Dom Post yesterday under the heading, "Why we are all b...

My Truth column from August 9 is now on-line. In 2004 the Civil Union Bill was bitterly contested. Conservatives lobbied MPs furiously to...

The NZ Herald reports: NZ First social policy spokeswoman Asenati Lole-Taylor said it was difficult to justify the amount of public m...

Is it just that I am so brow-beaten over the issue of racial discrimination that when I get to the following paragraph it feels as though, ...

An old, blind Marine Gunnery Sergeant wanders into an All-Girl Biker Bar.   He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Dani...

Paula Bennett keeps insisting there is no official measure of child poverty in New Zealand. This tack hasn't worked well for her. In a...

Gareth Hughes, on Frogblog , has a post about the behaviour in parliament yesterday. Kudos to him for not posting the rest of the speaker...

National MP Maggie Barry is opposed to voluntary euthanasia. Ms Barry said many advocates of euthanasia were unaware of the world-class ...

Don't do it again. Next time a Domestic Purposes Beneficiary starts to publicly complain about unfair treatment,  motivated either as ...

Criticising the Green paper submission summary released today Labour MP Jacinda Ardern says : “Research shows that poverty and i...

Submissions are now available on-line from MSD .... that is, those from NGOs and organisations. Those made by members of the public (like m...

My August 2 Truth column is now on-line. Shortly after Labour’s Bill to extend Paid Parental Leave (PPL) from 14 weeks to six months eme...

This is probably a coincidence but Rodney Hide and John Ansell have both launched into the Treaty of Waitangi today. Rodney serves it up t...

Today's DomPost editorial points out the obvious. God knows why last year's Labour couldn't see it. Given that the last ...

Lower Hutt Mayor Ray Wallace has been lambasted on the DomPost's opinion page. Below is a letter from a local GP and a further featured...