Lindsay Mitchell

Here's a cut and paste from Cato . Quick and easy read: Grading the Fiscal Cliff Deal: Terrible, but Could Be Worse ...

 What will be happening with welfare in 2013? The major event that springs to mind is changes to the names  of all main benefits. I still ...

By coincidence I had backed the horse Ashley Mundee was riding on December 30 so was watching the race. Elleaye was around mid-field when he...

New breakfast host Martin Devlin says Radio Hauraki is "crap". It's been crap since they dumped Nick, Deano and Mel from ...

That's what Matt McCarten says in his Herald column today: This year has finished him. His evasiveness over Kim Dotcom, his shonk...

When there is no current news, perusing papers from the past is sometimes entertaining. The Truth had the best articles. Here's one abou...

It's been a somewhat strange Xmas here. The weather has see-sawed between intense heat and considerable chill, for the first time we put...

(My December 20 Truth column isn't on-line yet no doubt due to Xmas break. Below in full.) Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia has ann...

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...