I confess that the MacDoctor was seriously thinking about chucking in this blogging lark. For the past week or so the news has been deeply uninspiring, with lackluster lists from Labour, gaggles of gays and a gormless Goff. Nothing new there, then. National found itself essentially nationalising another company. Nothing new there, either. For a [...]

The Herald has a fascinating example of how statistics can be filtered through an agenda to say, more or less, what you want. The latest set of statistics from the Children’s Social Health Monitor have been interpreted by Prof Cindy Kiro and the current Children’s Commissioner, John Angus, to mean that the recession is having [...]