Lindsay Mitchell

The NZ Herald reports that latest Auckland audience polling shows Radio Live losing listeners in a big way. Marcus Lush, Michael Laws and W...

Here's a bit of fun. The NZ Initiative asks, " How full of it are you? Run your writing (or indeed any writing at all) through t...

My Truth column for March 28 - April 3 Labour was once proudly the party for the workers; the triers and the battlers. That’s how our ol...

Another great quote dug up by the Freedom Foundation : I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get ar...

The UK Chancellor is the equivalent of our Finance Minister. A report from today's Scotsman: GEORGE Osborne yesterday attacked critic...

A 'welfare commentator' must be politically even-handed. If Jacinda Ardern gets it wrong I'm quick to criticise. When it was ...

What's the difference between carrying extra kilos in baggage and extra kilos on your person, except you get charged for the first? The ...

Data has been available for some time that shows Maori are statistically more likely to be involved in a road accident. Now the University ...

It is not my primary intention to argue against tax cuts but I couldn't accept the PSA Secretary Richard Wagstaff's rationale for ex...

Yesterday's DomPost editorial was pleasantly forthright. After the usual preamble about welfare being a social contract which most ben...

A commentor yesterday was surprised that the teenage birth rate is dropping. I've extracted the data from Statistics NZ and charted th...

Whaleoil has blogged a YouTube clip supposed to provoke outrage against male physical play with a baby. By coincidence we had a visiting ...

The current government has been keen to increasingly involve the private sector  in a number of areas. MSD has just reported on the progres...

My Truth column from March 21-27: It is my fervent hope that National exercises its financial veto aga...

The NCPA has a piece on the soaring disability insurance numbers in the US: Since 1970, the number of individuals receiving DI has grown...

When was the last time you heard someone say "It takes a village to raise a child"? Not long ago I bet. Or "... children are ...

Green co-leader Russel Norman says : 90 percent of Kiwis not interested in Key’s asset sales He bases this on the 425,000 registered exp...

 According to Stuff : "Some employers say they are dealing with dozens of applicants unpresentable and unfit for work and they fea...

Media Release ONE IN FIVE BABIES BORN 2012 ON WELFARE BY YEAR-END Thursday, March 21, 2013 Data released under the Official Informatio...

An exchange in parliament today: Jacinda Ardern : Should a sole parent be able to study to become a nurse or a social worker while on the ...