Lindsay Mitchell

I hope Jenesa Jeram, a smart young woman from The NZ Initiative doesn't mind my posting her piece from their newsletter this week. She i...

It amuses me that the Human Rights Commission is calling for  adoption laws to cease to discriminate. Here is a list of how that currently ...

Worrycrats, as I call them, are a special breed of totalitarian bureaucrats who spawn rapidly as society is socialized. These people con...

Whale Oil has carried a response from one of the Charter Schools. Excellent work SB. The writer included the DomPost among the "face...

Below are a couple of slides from my presentation to the recent ACT conference. I talked about the successful (thus far) reforms and the fai...

This morning I found a pamphlet sitting on the dining room table. It must have come up with other junk mail yesterday. How badly organ...

Eric Crampton recounts a response from Sir Bob regarding Eric's assessment of the economic impact of the proposed Morgan statue: Dear ...

Earlier this week MSD released a report that found gang members had cost Work and Income, and Child Youth and Family $714 million in the 22...

Radio NZ is running a "highly unscientific"  poll . At 7:50am

I found this a fascinating read . Oh how I wish that we had such variation and delineation of ideas in this country. Ron Haskins lays out ...

MSD are going to conduct trials designed to intervene in gang life and improve their children's outcomes. It's got to be better than...

The following graph shows that a substantial portion of minimum wage workers live in relatively wealthy households, possibly wealthier house...

I was at the ACT conference yesterday to speak about welfare, but also heard  most of the other addresses. Some  highlights: 1/When Ruth M...

Kim Holmes writes in advance of his forthcoming book, "The Closing of the Liberal Mind": Why have liberals become so intolerant...

The NZ Initiative released a report into poverty this week. Co-author, Jenesa Jeram has a piece in this morning's DomPost explaining the...

An interesting piece in today's NZ Herald highlights excerpts from speeches of various MPs deliberately personalising the "kiwi dr...

Local body politics in Wellington is dominated by left activists including churches, unions, political party members and lots of troughers. ...

Shedding a third of their vote (12% down to 8% in the latest Colmar Brunton poll) is either about Green MPs or their ideas. Some people thi...

In today's  HOS this photo appears with the by-line: It’s not over yet, but it looks like the old flag, left, will win out over the...

Kim Workman kindly sent me a graph which depicts murder rates in New Zealand extending back even further than mine. I've included his co...