Lindsay Mitchell

The PM has made herself Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. Symbolically a good move for her. But crucial questions have to be answered. ...

Thanks to a reader for highlighting this blog post from Jan Logie, now the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (focussing on Domest...

This Labour/Greens/NZ First coalition will be a different kettle of fish from the last Labour government. If you doubt that, here's a pe...

Writing in today's DomPost: A "Real Change" Government, determined to reverse the draconian policies adopted by a Ministry o...

So said Steven Joyce. I hope he sticks to this.  E xplanations of policy concessions are now emerging and it appears National rejected ...

If you think I have a grudge against Ardern, you are partly right. She  publicly ridiculed my research. But my problem with Ardern is mainl...

Well continue actually, but begin as Prime Minister Let's start with this one : "When you have a market economy, it all come...

If the accuracy of this RNZ report can be relied on, those who argue against voluntary euthanasia using the high quality of palliative as su...

For your ongoing reference, here are beneficiary numbers, released today, at change of government. The slow but consistent reduction contin...

What a blow. Rodney Hide announces his last column for the Herald on Sunday. I suppose it'll save a few minutes of my day not having to...

In the on-line media age, where both 'writers' and readers are seemingly insatiably thirsty for content, opinion pieces have become ...

And so it came to pass. The self-serving, bad-mannered, boorish, duplicitous, Winston Peters has once more fooled some of the people, thereb...

Decades of state welfare and political paternalism have [since] conditioned some people to believe they cannot take care of themselves with...

Last year I wrote a paper which explored the link between child poverty and family structure. The strongest correlate with child poverty is...

Great to see: Maniototo farmers challenge Ardern to visit them on water tax A group of Central Otago farmers are challenging Jacinda A...

The number of teenage mothers granted a benefit has plummeted: source The percentage of children dependent on a benefit is fallin...

Jacinda Mania hasn't struck everywhere: Not a skerrick of interest in the royal party it would appear. Working too hard to notice. ...

Muriel Newman accuses the Labour leader of being neither open nor transparent which Ardern claims "at every soundbite". A demo...

If you have a few spare minutes this morning  Jacob Hornberger is well worth reading: The leftist shibboleth that undergirds America as a...

John Banks never appealed to me at any level. Not as a National MP, not as a talkback host, not as a mayor. But most certainly not as an ACT...