Lindsay Mitchell

Alan Duff has a go at Tuku Morgan, his greed and lack of a "self-regulation" button. He proceeds onto the lack of Treaty money s...

The NZCPR has an expanded version of my earlier blog post as their guest commentary this week. "New Zealand (as represented by th...

I frequently use my blog as a filing system. While I don't use 'labels', running a 'search'  for what I want inevitably ...

Yesterday I was on Larry William's show backing Anne Tolley's call for contraceptive intervention with mothers who have children al...

This'll cause an uproar among feminists ("don't interfere with my reproductive rights") and Maori who think like Tariana T...

The Daily Blog  is defending CYF and state monopoly of child care and protection. This comment caught my eye:

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...