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Habits of mind

KIA ORA READER.

The working year of 2024 is under way and I know this because, in very Tāmaki Makaurau fashion, the traffic is straight from the devil’s email. Another year, another infuriating stretch of cars where one can only dream of having reliable public transport.

I have found returning to work this year, well, a bit tougher than usual. The weather doesn’t help but, if I were to guess, there has been a bit of a sense of dread about the global outlook: the US veto of a

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