Letter from New ZealandJanuary 28, 2026 I was looking, the other day, at two photographs taken in New Zealand on the same Saturday morning. The first shows a hillside at Mount Maunganui – or what remains of it. Where there had been grass and pohutukawa trees, there is now a river of mud and debris…

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