Ian Macduff

“For as long as our records go back, we have held these two things dear, landscape and memory. Each infuses us with a different kind of life. The one feeds us, figuratively and literally. The other…

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice". Dr Martin Luther King, 1956 Readers from New Zealand who are of a certain age will remember the headline corporate promise that…

I had planned, indeed had partly written, the usual form of blog for this month. It was to be a further comment on access to dispute resolution and justice, picking up on Zbynek Loebl's recent blog…

Many years ago, a group of friends were driving in the south of England in a rental car and, in need of directions (pre-Google maps and GPS), we pulled over to the side of the road to ask a gentleman…

Brings you down to buy a paper If you read between the lines No one seems to have the answer To living in these troubled times Still you try and you try And you do what you must do “Living in these…

“Across the great divide, Just grab your hat and take that ride” - The Band, 1969 (written by Robbie Robertson) We have all had those conversations or exchanges after which we’ve wished we had…

“For last year's words belong to last year's language; And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." T S Eliot, The Four Quartets, “Little Gidding” "Perhaps…

It’s just over six weeks since the horrific shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, leading to 50 deaths, and a month since I felt compelled to make that event the topic of my blog. Now, in the…

“All changed, changed utterly, A terrible beauty is born.” - W B Yeats, “Easter 1916” “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow…