Lindsay Mitchell

Thanks to the reader who sent in this very interesting observation from the Economist blog : ONE of the key aims of taxation and public s...

Watching Paul Henry interview Anne Tolley about the latest CYF report was very dissatisfying. There was no discussion of getting to the real...

This post simply offers some cut and paste excerpts from the preliminary report to the Minister from the "independent expert panel...

A most interesting piece from Brookings  challenges the traditional idea that there is a shortage of men in the marriage market. The orig...

Ex Social Development Minister and "sociologist" Steve Maharey has a column in today's DomPost titled "Centre-Left need...

The latest 3 News Reid Research poll has found only one in four people want to change the flag. The process of change is often gradual. A...

Over at the Daily Blog Mike Treen has a post entitled "Benefit cuts designed to help cut wages as well." There is a distinct lac...

MSD launched some new website yesterday. Money to burn. This surprised me though. 61 per cent of New Zealanders over the age of 65 use...

State confiscation of private wealth . That's all it is. Appalling. The Government's rejection of the Lochinver sale causes som...

Asked yesterday by Radio NZ for a comment(s) about this incidence of seeming law-misinterpretation by the Ministry of Social Development tha...

Just announced Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce has today announced that from 2017 all Universities, Wāna...

New Zealanders are encouraged to moan about how hard done by they are by groups of people with political axes to grind, hobby horses to rock...

Doug Sellman, look the other way now. A study from IEA finds "... estimates suggest that the net cost of alcohol to the state is ...

Here's a plausible hypothesis; "U.S. society is in the midst of a large-scale moral change in which we are experiencing the emer...

A couple of items that caught my attention from the NZ Herald : ....health economist Dr Brian Easton says with certain rehabilitative and...

I'd forgotten all about the Parkin Prize until reading this morning on the DomPost front page that the $20,000 prize winner had entered ...

Muriel Newman's latest column at NZCPR , Feminism damages children Child abuse has again been in the headlines over the last few week...

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Whipped from FFF , this one really appealed: Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth stupid fumbling--oh, he conceded t...

The institution of marriage is enjoying new popularity - amongst gays. Left liberals are, though, very reluctant to acknowledge the social...