In the Dominion Post today there’s an article about the story of Mr Reasonable, whose blog goes into quite lot more detail about the dodgy dealings inflicted on him by a local property developer and the property developer’s, er, friends.

[I don’t know about anyone else, but italicising the word “friends” always brings to mind a certain subset of Italian society – as imagined like this: “Mr Andreotti whispered: ’Don’t worry – cosa amici in Palermo will sort it out for us.’” I’ve obviously been reading way too many books on recent history in Italy…]

Anyway, if the link comes online, I’ll post it here.

Update: 18 May_. The article is now online here. And as Stuff expires its articles in about two weeks, I’ve got a PDF version of the article herereasonable.pdf.

Update: 21 May_. Some further, astounding news for Mr Reasonable (PDF version 2.pdf">here). And big ups all round for Tommy’s.