Lindsay Mitchell

  This letter seems to be affirming what mine said about familiy stability - not cash hand-outs - improving a child's prospects. The wri...

According to John Tamihere, who has regrettably in my view taken the Maori Party down a  full-blown victimhood track: Māori make up 60% of ...

 There was a period which extended to a few years when the DomPost ignored my letters. People used to ask me why I'd stopped writing the...

  Another who thinks more money thrown at the problems of the "underclass" will make them go away. Graeme MacCormick  believes ta...

  Describing the Prime Minister’s daily address, the ad nauseam “wash your hands and be kind,” tonight's TV3 News had Seymour saying,   ...

 From MSD : Trends in main benefit receipt are associated with the official unemployment rate 1. The Depression (D)– 1930s 2. The Wool Bust ...

Michelle Duff claims in an 'analysis' for "trustworthy, accurate and reliable" Stuff: 90 per cent of those who have lost ...

What a whinger Michelle Duff is. Writing a piece about how hard done by women have been during the Covid crisis she says: " 90 per cen...

" One of our goals and aspirations as a Government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. " Jacinda Ard...

 Here's a proposition to explore: "...the extent to which society provides housing, health, and benefits/welfare is a critical fact...

It is unedifying when one professional attacks another. It might even be described as 'bullying' not that I have much truck with tha...

Two new evidence papers were released by Oranga Tamariki this month. The first calculates the risk of mothers who have a history of care and...

Back to basics, I very much enjoyed the following  timeless piece written by John Mendzela after the 2015 Rugby World Cup: "We’ve won t...

The kind one is so very unkind when she relishes people hanging on to hear what is going to happen to their lives, their families, jobs and ...

 The formation of Covid - Plan B has only just come to my attention: "Epidemiologist Simon Thornley says the new virus outbreaks and lo...

 John Banks filled in for Peter Williams on Magic Talk this week. He spent this morning polling the audience on their Party vote intentions ...

Another graphic illustration of Labour's achievements, the Housing Register, previously known as the state house waiting list: Source

National's 'subsequent child' policy said a woman who has another baby on welfare would still have work obligations when that ch...

According to Statistics NZ the June quarter unemployment rate dropped to 4% These figures are derived from a 15,000 household survey and ext...

I've been around ACT for a long time. If anything convinces me the momentum building in the polls is real, the turn-out at the Wellingto...