Lindsay Mitchell

This is bad news in my book. MSD has always used 'prioritised ethnicity' recording. If a client records they are Maori and other et...

In 2016 the government provided you, the public, with a valuable insight into what gangs are costing us. When I went searching for an update...

The stuff that floats around the internet, the endless links people send to me, the conflicting reports, well, it overwhelms me. I read Paul...

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...