When is being unemployed not unemployed? A true measure would show more teens are without jobs than people who have supposedly 'retired', writes Tony Burton.

The review of the 2018 census backs up his experience that Statistics New Zealand is a monster with a small but distant brain, writes Tony Burton.

Random attacks are only a moment's inattention away so government officials learn to watch their step when committing anything to the written record, writes Tony Burton.

Public service chief executives are now more interested in making their mark than providing government ministers with decent advice – and it's having disastrous consequences.