Lindsay Mitchell

Today beneficiary parents receive a pay rise of $25 weekly or $1,300 yearly. It is impossible without asking an OIA question to know exact...

There probably are as many persons coerced into acting, not as they want, but as others want, through majority rule as through totalitarian ...

According to Grant Robertson  today: "New Zealand’s growth per person is significantly lower than countries like the UK and America,...

Idly reading an article I was captured by the photo. What city is that a photo from, I wondered? I can see 3 or 4 Asian looking people...

Another graph from David. I don't know enough off the top of my head to see the pattern but he says the pro-change vote aligns to Natio...

I was looking at the voter turn-out and noticed that the higher turn-out electorates had a stronger preference for change. David made a g...

Even when voting is made as easy as a tick and a trip to the postbox, a third of people can't be bothered. Probably the same people wh...

Breaking with normal practice, I am blogging on the same subject in successive posts. Giving every teenager $200 a week when they turn 18 ...

The universal basic income. $40 billion. Yes. That's roughly what it will cost to give every New Zealander aged 18 or over $11,000 ann...

Social media has become the new fall guy for everything wrong with teenagers. Older generations are always looking for new evils to explain ...

It is still odd to me to read questions and answers that would have sat very comfortably with the last Labour govt. Just substitute Anne Tol...

The story being carried by most media this morning relates to P contamination in brand new state houses: Nearly a quarter of homes buil...

The local authority statistics were released on Friday. The tables make interesting reading. Rates collected have risen 14 percent when c...

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 ...