Lindsay Mitchell

Light blogging due to Xmas rush; still finishing and framing commissions due for delivery Xmas eve. But this is worth a wider read. Again fr...

My December 13 Truth column is now on-line I wish I knew if my sympathy for Brendan Horan, sacked NZ First MP, is warranted. Anyone who ...

...like Richard Branson, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Sir Richard Branson has never sat on an idea. A frenetic 40-year career in the pu...

Yesterday I blogged about an unusually sensible editorial from the DomPost. Today back to collectivist, failed, ideology in the letters c...

Excellent editorial here stating the obvious but so often ignored principle that children are essentially their parent's responsibility...

The Palmerston North City Council is running a campaign to persuade those approached by beggars to consider giving to a charity rather than ...

My December 6 Truth column is now on-line: Even a deaf person watching Parliament would be left in no doubt what Social Development Mini...

Long time readers of my blog might remember I make a Xmas card each year. Whatever is new in our day-to-day lives usually features. Lexie fi...

This particular report has so many different 'costs' for tackling child poverty it's hard to make a reasoned response . Doe...

I expect child poverty to be topical again today as the 2012 Childrens Social Health Monitor (link is to 2011 version) is released. There...

How much compo should we pay Susan Couch? Dunno. What's 11 years on the DPB living in Auckland worth? $300,000. Righto.

I'm shocked. Germany hates home-schooling apparently.  The Welfare State We're In has linked to a New American article about the p...

"Stay on the dole"  WINZ tells beneficiaries WINZ refuses to put up a few hundred dollars to save thousands These are the he...

The statistics for 2011 have just been released and student allowance recipients for 2011 reached 97,308. That's an increase of 41,757 ...

My November 22 Truth column is now on-line: Delegates at last weekend’s Labour Party conference decided electorate committees should have...

Earlier in the week Bob  Stephens and Charles Waldegrave two long-time anti-poverty campaigners wrote a piece for the NZ Herald which  looke...

Why is it that banks can charge you account fees on a non-working day but not make direct credit transfers till working days? Will Labour ...

From the World Socialist Web Site , an article yesterday began: Since the outbreak of the economic crisis in 2008, there has been a hug...

It's become terribly fashionable to espouse the innocence of convicted murderers. The latest cause celebre is Mark Lundy. These partic...