Lindsay Mitchell

Extremism in Scotland. Could it happen here?  Quite possibly. Never under-estimate the state's inclination to summon and impose seemin...

While leader of the Mana Party is steadfastly opposed to tobacco and cannabis... RACHEL Decriminalise marijuana you would oppose that. ...

Two parking wardens who will receive $4 an hour extra under the Wellington City Council's adoption of a living wage each have a partner...

Frank Macskasy responds to my letter. Couple of points Frank. I don't agree with corporate welfare but subsidies to the film indu...

The Taxpayer's Union has come out in support of a carbon tax that is revenue neutral. On balance they find it preferable to the Emissio...

The government has announced a rewrite of the Social Security 1964 Act, which is a massive maze of dated legislation. I note that the cab...

Keeping Stock blogs about this example of Green merchandising: Which got me imagining other party stickers: Mana - I only date boys...

 Writing in today's DomPost : Big Government is now so all-pervasive that many people find it hard to imagine life without it. That...

Internet/Mana's first big policy is free tertiary education. The government already spends annually around $4 billion on tertiary educ...

Here's one just finished. Oil on canvas. Zali is  Reona's granddaughter. She was playing in our garden late summer - at times throwi...

Just wondering.... They are both hard left unionists; 'social justice' radicals; ex-MPs; former paid Green staffers and feminists....

Here's a great letter spotted in this morning's DomPost:   Compliments and gratitude to both Rex Benson and Bill Aitchison for...

MSD has just released a 135 page CYF Workload and  Caseload review.   The following pretty much sums it up: When staff were asked ...

A letter I wrote was published in the DomPost this morning -  but only half of it. This is the entire letter: Dear Editor Silvio Famul...

Cut and paste in full from Samizdata . Only the exclamation mark led me to suspect it was....well read for yourself. Local substitutions cou...

On Wednesday Green's co-leader Metiria Turei questioned John Key about the extra assistance for newborns in the budget. She wanted to kn...

Chris Bishop has been selected as National's Hutt South candidate for the 2014 election. As it is my electorate and I would very much l...

The following thoughts are worthy of wider circulation. The fatalistic attitudes described don't just lead to road deaths. They lead...

Hot off the press, the graph below shows the percentage of smokers in each deprivation area, 10 being the most deprived. The data is extract...

ACT has just announced Stephen Berry will be standing in the Upper Harbour electorate. That's good news. With Libertarianz no longer c...