Lindsay Mitchell

In his Waitangi Day speech , before he mentioned wanting to change the flag - the only aspect of his speech I heard reported - John Key talk...

Yesterday I wrote, when questioning why only 19 people were interested in Gareth Morgan's meeting, "[perhaps] the Maori that Morgan...

Fascinating infographic from the Scientific American  shows  big gaps between what scientists believe and what the public think. Jeepers. A...

What went wrong with Gareth Morgan's plan to re-educate those people who 'ignorantly' share in what he calls 'Brash-think...

Statistics NZ released some interesting data yesterday about access to the internet and transport. Relevant to my area of interest is this:...

 From the NZ Herald : "I don't think we should help Maori more because they happen to be Maori. That to me is a nonsense. Some ...

For a number of years the Left has  demanded that all social workers be compulsorily  registered. The new Social Development spokesperson fo...

Two columns offer quite contrasting views. The first from Rodney Hide: The David Cunliffe experiment of tacking left is over. That...

From today's Herald on Sunday : A 3 News Reid-Research poll has revealed 55 per cent of voters think Little is potentially a better ...

Two articles from NCPA today: Charter Schools: Doing More with Less Money January 29, 2015 In honor of School Choice Week, organizat...

Tom Scott's DomPost cartoon this morning was predictable. Here's a comment I sent to Sean Plunket yesterday: Eleanor Catton  wa...

 Like it. "This morning the new Labour Leader gave his first state of the nation speech – a chance to see the new direction, if any, ...

...I couldn't. None of the required qualifications. More to the point, I wouldn't be interested. The Families Commission (now expe...

Yesterday Chris Trotter responded to a NZ Herald opinion piece by Jamie Whyte. The post was moving down the Daily Blog list but as Whyte h...

The mainstream media lap up so-called evidence of the evils income inequality generates. Pickett and Wilkinson's Spirit Level , and...