The scenes outside the National Party conference serve only to remind me that the left apparently continue to favour unreasoning force rather than reasonable debate to promote their views. I would be interested in someone with socialist/union leanings explaining exactly how storming a police cordon, and trespassing on private property, with the express purpose of [...]

Remember Helen Clark’s “keep ‘em in school” plan’s? John Key cried “me too” and has followed through with a scheme for employing young workers. Proper apprenticing schemes have yet to be set up. It is a pity that politicians usually have egos that are too big to be humbled, because it seems that normal market [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. (MacDoctor definition) Thanks go to Pique Oil for this piece of statistical spam. This demonstrates why all journalists need to take a statistics primer and learn MacDoctor’s rules of Data Interpretation viz: Statistics are misleading Statistics shown on data projectors [...]

There is something about the new proposed nine-day working fortnight that fills me with disquiet. The idea of the government using taxpayers dollars to make people less productive just seems all wrong to me. On the other hand, you could quite rightly say that a lot of government spending meets this criteria, particularly that spending [...]

A new Government report again portrays the obvious, telling us that women are paid up to 35% less than men. Cue the feeding frenzy: The Human Rights Commission says the evidence of workplace gender inequality is now indisputable, and it calls on public organisations to take action. “We want people to start fixing the problem, [...]