Lindsay Mitchell

Social Security benefits were legislated in 1938. The Labour government harnessed the collective financial power of all workers to provide f...

In 2015 I came across this photo of an unidentified Maori woman on the internet. Because I used it to produce the painting below...

Another wonderful Wahlberg creation I love this work. The hammer cowers like a supplicant dog being menaced by a more aggressive beast ...

In the first three periods charted just over one in five prisoners was on remand - awaiting trial. The latest March  statistics show the...

Simplicity of idea is always desirable. But the idea still has to make sense. A professor reported on RNZ says : "I think the pande...

Released last month from the Family Violence Death Review Committee. Sixth report | Te Pūrongo tuaono Men who use violence |  Ngā tāne k...

Here's an interesting chart from Jim Rose's blog . I don't know why there is "no data" for NZ. From the 2013 ce...

A reader sent this interview to me. I have selected the passages that particularly interest me: On April 14, 2020 Gonzalo Schwarz, Presi...

Son has been made redundant two years into a building apprenticeship. Employer laying off over a third of their workforce. Said to me this...

"...if you are worried about stupidity in high places, your best solution would be to get rid of high places." Eamonn Butler, Ad...

I know I should be sleuthing for serious stuff but it's Friday night and I really can't be bothered. This whole lock down debacle ha...

Here's what Grant Robertson said at noon today: He said 40,000 people had signed up for the jobseeker benefit since 20 March. Rober...

A Stuff ("trustworthy, accurate and reliable news") headline reads: Government considering change to benefit access rules A...

The years stolen from this baby would probably exceed all of the years left to those who've died from Covid 19. Oh well. Who car...

Help me out here. Below is a selection of passages from Bomber Bradbury's blog . Now I know Martyn likes to use hyperbole and stir peopl...

Here's another viewpoint on Covid 19 from a retired English professor. "Robert Watson: A comparison of the relative magnitude of...

The police are running around ordering people off Christchurch beaches. Their message: "If you're not exercising, clear out."...

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We've had three April birthdays during the debacle. My dear Mum turned 88. Yesterday we were at last able to play a few games of Scrab...

Source God, I really feel for them. That's all.