Lindsay Mitchell

Hat-tip Inquiring Mind. But the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff isn’t empty. It is crammed full of casualties. Right now 1.4 m...

Source The cost of the wage subsidy is now twice that of the ANNUAL spend on working age benefits (see my previous post )

This is the lie I really take issue with. Verbatim from the Prime Minister at today's  press conference: "Three and a half w...

Wage subsidy data at  April 3 : Just to give you an idea of how much $5.361 billion is, it equates to: MORE than the ANNUAL combi...

Amazing display by mother nature today. You can see the 3-4 metre wall of wave in Muritai Bay and in the foreground is sea where it has ne...

The opinion of a Timaru lawyer, questioning the legality of the lockdown, a better communicator than dear leader: "In the meantime,...

Interesting graph from Michael Reddell's Croaking Cassandra another of the blogs I follow, just more spasmodically: I'm away ...

Due to the current upset situation caused by the Corona Virus in the economy, the Government has decided to implement a scheme to put work...

The bloggers I read daily have sprung to life over the last two weeks. People never short on opinion have provided me with much needed enter...

I thought I'd wait till well into the day to see if the media were going to do the usual Wahine Day remembrance. Zilch. It is April 10...

Apparently our leader is a great communicator. She spells stuff out really clearly. For example 'Stay home' and 'Act like you ha...

Many commentators refer to the Global Financial Crisis and the unemployment rate peak of 6.7% in September 2012  as a reference for how high...

The feminization of society isn't  the overlay of feminist values. No. It's the overlay of natural feminine tendencies. Don't te...

Apart from my musings about Winston's end , this too made me smile. More, it made me laugh out loud: "Support each other, think ...

RNZ reports Ashley Bloomfield said today the number of new Covid 19 cases appears to be leveling off now. If we come out of the lock down...

As I mow the lawns listening to the racing coming in from Caulfield and Randwick and eight other Australian venues; and as I reflect on the ...

This is a pretty good analysis of what is happening and published as the major opinion piece in today's Dompost. New Zealand's...

And a very sad column from Listener writer Joanne Black on the demise of the Listener in particular, a great New Zealand institution....

Governments around the world are making the rules up as they go along.  Their commands are arbitrary and inconsistent. The latest 'loc...

Each morning I wake up and the questions start immediately. 1/ Is hysteria even more contagious than covid-19? 2/ Why have people who di...