NZCSC are a bunch of old contrarians who are right in that climate change won't effect them.

How is Hansford?

The Listener fires their environment reporter, after pressure from a oil-funded lobby group.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10504561

nice to see I'm a "nut job"

I wasn't thinking of you when I wrote that but hey, if the hat fits by all means slip it on.

I particularly loved this passage:

Mr Hager told Radio New Zealand this morning that he continued to get material from National and other parties, but he had no plans for another book.

"I am still regularly getting information from the National Party as I do from other parties."

He…

"Secret Power" cured my insomnia for a while with its heavy language written in a pretty Stalinist style.

Nice smear, Craig. You might also think Hager would have been in the cops line of sights and was cleared.

Nice to see you calmed your stomach for a moment. Not to actually bother reading what Harry Quinn actually said, but here goes:

“How the thefts occurred still largely remains…

And if Hager obtained them illegitimately, he's hardly going to fess up himself and throw his credibility (and livelihood) down the crapper, is he?

Nicky Hager has built his career on getting people to trust him and give him information that he puts in his books, and researching publicly available…

And if Hager obtained them illegitimately

Nice smear, Craig. You might also think Hager would have been in the cops line of sights and was cleared.

According to Brash the same cannot be said for his National party colleagues.

Of course, Mr. Hager could sue

The idea that you run…

Jeez ... Just let it go.

I sort of agree with you. But you've got to love the two word response to Nicky Hager's demand for an apology for the ""baseless allegations" that he obtained the e-mails illegally: "get lost".

Of course, Mr. Hager could sue Don Brash, John Key…

Police investigation says: No hacker. An inside job. (Reason: evidence).

John Key says: Might have been a hacker. Definitely not an inside job. (Reason: coz I say…

Key has just been quoted on Radio NZ news rejecting the police conclusion and saying he believes there was an external super-hacker.

Jeez ... Just let it go.

Someone should assist Mr Key pick his battles – he keeps picking other's.

Part way through and a wee religious bias was clear. He could only use the bible as a primary source (ok), but wouldn't address the possibility of an unwed…

Key has just been quoted on Radio NZ news rejecting the police conclusion and saying he believes there was an external super-hacker.

Of course he did. I mean, he's hardly goign to fess up himself, is he?

The US army has gone down this path already, as chronicled by Jon Ronson in The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson. I reviewed it a while back :

Given…

Jeez ... Just let it go.

So, Lyndon, the big reveal is unlikely to be reptilian. My money's on amphibians.

Bah! I've said it before and I'll say it again: Wishart's second-rate compared to David Icke. He's already been there with his revelation that the Windsors are anthropophagic (well, we can hardly say cannibalistic) reptiles (beat…

I say this only in the interests of Wishart not making a complete dick of himself, again.

Did it work? No?

Detective Inspector Harry Quinn

... useless sidebar info – Harry Quinn is Keith Quinn's brother. "Lomu..! Lomu...!"

My prediction is that the book will have one or two genuine scoops or items of interest but that they will be lost in a blizzard of implausible conspiracy theories.

So there you have it – Clark has the kind of absolute power where you have to play sides off against each other on an issue by issue basis, which seems like a pretty crummy kind of absolute power if you ask me . . .

Good God: I just…

New Zealand's prime ministers can be compared to the "Stuart royal executive"

Damned Stuart's, so absolutist that they kept getting their heads cut off and deposed...by Parliament.

Ducks in a barrel this, but it'll keep me amused for…

You comment on Wishart's blog? You're a braver man than I, Gunga Din.

seems like a pretty crummy kind of absolute power if you ask me . . .

Yeah, Joe Stalin would be rolling in his grave at that definition. I wonder how he will explain away Ms…

Perhaps the name reminds you of Hank Quinlan, Orson Welles' corrupt Police captain in Touch of Evil.

Woo – great spotting!

MMP has not prevented Clark getting much of her agenda through Parliament, by playing one side off against the other on an issue by issue basis...

Brilliant! Decide on the book's title, then rewrite the dictionary to fit. But don't stop at the New Language, invent the New Arithmetic too.…

...Detective Inspector Harry Quinn (what a great pulp fiction name for a cop!)...

Perhaps the name reminds you of Hank Quinlan, Orson Welles' corrupt Police captain in Touch of Evil.

Thanks Danyl for the informative link to Mr. Wishart's forthcoming publication.

But no answer to the most important questions: Are the pages two or three-ply? Textured or plain? Scented? Printed with stylish patterns designed to enhance every lifestyle?

__Not so, Danyl, previous Prime Ministers were more tightly restricted by constitutional conventions and a more independent public service. The reforms of the past 20 years have seriously weakened the latter, whilst this administration has not…

I approach it with some trepidation however as the title, "ABSOLUTE POWER", suggests that this book may be as divorced from reality as his thoughts on evolution, religion, society and just about anything else he cares to pontificate on.…

But you know Wellington, rumours up to its armpits and they're not always correct.

But so often actionably defamatory, which is why they don't usually see print in any way, shape or form. It's always been my view that its a matter of when, not if, some commentator lands a…

Craig: that was hardly the jumping on and savaging I expected.

Certainly not up to your usual standard of bad faith invective — that's worth bringing out the nail file for. Lift your game.

The last two points have been addressed pretty exhaustively by…

Don't forget: http://www.lawcom.govt.nz/ProjectGeneral.aspx?ProjectID=96

I take it nobody believes Mr Hagar's claim that the material was leaked to him by 'principled conservatives' within the National Party?

I'd like to think so.

Whatever anyway, it's a shame that the MSM did, and will, ignore all the underlying issues Hagar's book threw up – neo-liberal vs.…

Perhaps the person had a more personal than political motive? I suspect, but don't know, it was likely a coincidence of benefits for a group and a group dissemination.

Well, you could ask Nicky Hagar. I know Russell and I disagree on this, but I think the line between "theft,…

I take it nobody believes Mr Hagar's claim that the material was leaked to him by 'principled conservatives' within the National Party?

"Principled conservatives"? I don't think they exist.

I've got a theory
that it's an MP
a rival MP
No, something isn't right there

I've got a theory
It was a hacker
Stole all the emails
Golly what a nightmare

I've got a theory we should work this out...

So, whodunit?

Cui bono?

Well that's hard to answer assuming it wasn't Key (who'd be stupid to be directly involved...).

Perhaps the person had a more personal than political motive? I suspect, but don't know, it was likely a coincidence of benefits for a group and a group dissemination.

Cui bono?

Nah, he's in the clear.

So, whodunit?

Cui bono?

What new laws would they wished for? Bag and person checks for everyone who works in parliament?

I presumed that the new laws wouldn't alter this case at all, but were simply things that they discovered while investigating the case. Incidental so to speak.

We can now officially give up on the always-far-fetched-idea that the emails at the heart of The Hollow Men were snatched from the Parliamentary email system by some master hacker.

So, whodunit?

I think the Police involvement in this was always going to result in nothing of substance – the inside word I heard was that a disgruntled secretary obtained the emails as she had…