Lindsay Mitchell

I've stolen the following from Anarchist History of New Zealand  because it intrigues me. And Rick has more to say than I do on the firs...

At 20 you feel as if life goes on forever. At 60 plus you are keenly aware that it does not. It thoroughly disturbs me that so many young pe...

I especially liked this comment from my good friend Mark Wahlberg whose actions, as I have come to appreciate, speak even louder than his wo...

The panicked response to Covid is a feature of death denial.  We all die. Everyday there is a death for every two births roughly speaking. I...

More idiotic inferences drawn by the Green Party.  Maori beneficiaries have more debt to MSD and so have, on average, higher repayments. Th...

 New numbers released today show the inexorable growth in demand for state housing continues: Someone clever enough might depict Dame Whina...

The elimination of family and sexual violence. Expect a big announcement today about how government is going to achieve its elimination with...

That's what he said. He's a big fan of increasing the minimum wage so long as the economy is growing. Most of the time the economy i...

Today's protest in Newmarket was described as "anti-vaxx" by Radio New Zealand. On NewstalkZB the same protest was called ...

  Stand-out result , at 30% ACT is the most popular party among 18-49 year-old males.

Oranga Tamariki released two companion research papers on the last day of November. The topic is Making sense of being in care, adopted, or...

Regarding National's leadership crisis, Tracy Watkins extensively quotes a "frustrated former MP" presumably National. “Most ...

I am sick to death of women crying victim because of so-called offensive comments.  I am not sick to death of women who have genuine, almost...

A Stuff reporter writes ,  "Air New Zealand says it is cancelling more than 1000 flights between Aotearoa and Australia from now to the...

There's a feeling afoot, backed with evidence, that the state is increasingly on the side of wrong-doers.  Take the issue of forcing bla...

Wow. Net  Jobseeker numbers dropped by nearly 5,000 in the week to November 12. That's fantastic.  The number of people cancelling thei...

The Prime Minister's cause du jour , reducing child poverty, is a cover for communistic cravings. Left-wing governments always want to t...

The latest MSD  report measuring material hardship shows that among children aged 0-17 those in social housing have much higher hardship ra...

The NZ Initiative this week released a paper arguing against introducing unemployment insurance. One reason advanced is that relative to ot...

The Prime Minister says the thousands that descended on Parliament today are "not representative"  citing vaccination rates to sup...