Lindsay Mitchell

Stuff has a headline suggesting that the welfare system may be to blame for New Zealanders not taking jobs. There is no "maybe" a...

Apparently the new version of CYF launches today. While it'd be hard to not improve past approaches to family dysfunction, the tenor of ...

TV1 News tonight aired phone-filmed footage (3 times) of a New Zealand schoolgirl stomping on the head of another. Face pressed to ground. H...

I've added the renovating blog to the 'Blogs I read' list so you'll see any new entries come up if you're interested. Go...

I got an e-mail from the Prime Minister's team. It read: Today marks six months until the General Election....

You might have noticed I'm not blogging. Much. Here's why.

Published in today's Dominion Post: Dear Editor Owen Dance (Letters, March 13) writes, "[W]hat we now call New Zealand Supera...

A parliamentary question exchange from less than a year ago : David Seymour: How long after the current Prime Minister’s retirement wi...

Regarding a guaranteed basic income, which has been mooted in various guises for decades, and more recently adopted as a favourite by Garet...

Politics and reality not infrequently bear little relation to each other. My last two posts have been about the Maori Party's determi...

Radio NZ reports quite clearly today about the legislation the Maori Party is threatening to draw its support for the National Government...

Maori Party MP Marama Fox is threatening to pull support from the government over legislation that removes cultural priority when placing ...

I feel I have featured this man's letters before. He has a rather acerbic turn of phrase. For your reading pleasure:

On my reading of the situation , because New Zealand wants same-sex couples and singles to be allowed to adopt Russian children, and Russ...

Throughout the 2000s the left argued against work-testing (requiring employment from) people on the DPB. Maharey removed National's work...

The following is extracted from a report by  the World Socialist Website so be warned of bias. Putting that aside, what famous quotation com...

A sane letter from the DomPost today. Makes a change. (Left click on image to enlarge)

Yesterday the Sallies published their State of the Nation report. It was covered in the NZ Herald : "...the report notes that welf...

Here's a quotation from today's Future of Freedom newsletter: I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitutio...

Twice this year the stats I frequently blog about have become personal. First I had to make a call to CYF. I guess it will be logged as a ...