Lindsay Mitchell

We all know there are plenty of people pulling a single parent benefit who have partners. Anecdotal evidence aside, there are two data sourc...

 Some OIA responses leave me more in the dark than prior. The ex Minister for Social Development issued a press release in May this year ...

Alf Grumble has a post that is possibly satirical. Possibly deadly serious. Who knows with Alf and his 'constituents'. But good sat...

First a cut and paste from NCPA : The Rise in Single Motherhood Since 1965 December 10, 2014 In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan caused ...

Stuff is reporting a new paper from the OECD that finds Rising inequality has wiped a third off New Zealand's economic growth in rece...

The following argues that libertarians must never compromise in their advocacy. Arguing for reform of the welfare state is only arguing for ...

The opening statement certainly is. What about the second? Some of it sounds eerily familiar - 'skewing' for instance. From Civi...

There is something wrong when the region which has the highest level of civil servants is also the region with highest median incomes. Look ...

Not that I watch it , but I understand John Campbell has been running a witch hunt against Brian Tamaki for his ostentatious lifestyle. Radi...

Thanks to a reader for drawing my attention to the following. I was going to cut and paste the entire highly readable  review of a new book ...

From NCPA today: Which American States are the Most Free? December 3, 2014 Which American states are the most free? Texas, South Dak...

The Left's favoured method for describing a social problem is:  name neither offenders nor cause. That then carries through to their p...

1/ Currently almost two thirds of the children in poverty are reliant on a benefit. Those children tend to be in chronic poverty. Children...

This "working scale" model of the US government arrived in my inbox. In its working state it is highly recognisable because we h...

Simon Collins has a piece in the NZ Herald today, Asian youngsters are now more likely to suffer overcrowding and poverty-related illness...