Remembrance — & A Quote To Mark The Passing of Hilary Mantel, 1952-2022

Today is  a public holiday in New Zealand, to mark the passing of Queen of Elizabeth II and her seventy years as Aotearoa-New Zealand’s head of state.

Flowers for remembrance, Christchurch

Perhaps all eras are times of change, but it certainly feels like we are living through one where the degree of change is major, perhaps even unprecedented. So the end of the Queen’s 70-year reign does feel, more than usually, like the end of an era — not least because for so many of us, it spans a considerabl...