Lindsay Mitchell

My last post highlighted how Simon Wilson claimed in a column in today's NZ Herald that the average teacher age in New Zealand is 57. ...

Don't think I have come across this commentator before - Simon Wilson writing in the NZ Herald. All gloom and doom and crisis, crisis. ...

I added 'apparently' because you never know what lengths these obsessives will go to. While I've never heard of this unfortuna...

I've always had a lot of time for young Rick Giles. Involved first with the Libertarianz and then ACT on Campus, he's quirky, mercu...

I used to think that feminists had a beef with men making the world a tougher place for them to exist in. Now I believe that it is feminists...

The last graph reminded me of another recently viewed. Graphed in the same colours and groups prisoners by ethnicity ...

The first June to June increase in benefit numbers  since 2010 has been recorded. This sits alongside Carmel Sepuloni's change to the be...

One of the charts from my latest report, Imprisonment and Family Structure The rest of the paper argues why this is more than mere cor...

A little girl asks her mum, 'Mum, can I take the dog for a walk around the block?' Her mum replies 'No, because she is on heat....

The cartoon below was published in the DomPost, Monday, and has provoked letters of outrage. So I'm adding my two cents worth. De...

It struck me today why National couldn't pull enough vote to stay in government because they can't articulate a clear position. W...

This is a man who likes to hurt people. Severely physically hurt people. He has irrevocably alienated himself from normal society by d...

State house tenants are on a good wicket. MSD explains : (note: benefit = advantage) The benefit tenants receive from subsidised rents (I...

Apparently the treatment of beneficiaries has become harsh and they are subject to unreasonable obligations. An 'expert' panel has b...

Arrived in my letterbox today, this Labour pamphlet: Featuring: And: Talk abut 'milking it'. She really is all t...

Ex Alliance MP Dr Liz Gordon has apparently "...crunched the numbers on bail" and says the bail laws could be relaxed. RNZ report...

Thanks to a publicized   OIA response  , I happened across statistics not seen before. The data is from December 2017 and graphed below (n=...

My third report in a series, written for Family First, Imprisonment and Family Structure was released last Friday. I was very grateful to ...

I've just become 'mum' to one of these pups. The real mum is a smooth coat smallish Huntaway and the father mostly Sharpei. Work...