Katie 
I wrote a testimonial a few days ago for gaelicmediumeducation.com, the website which tells people all about the benefits of Gaelic immersive education and gives information on schools offering it in the islands. It came about because I have a work […]
It’s been three weeks. I am finally able to speak about it. The fact that Donald Trump — whom we can supposedly claim as one of our own since his mother came from Lewis — won the US Election made me […]
“Mammy! Mammy! Look! A lion!” “Mammy! Mammy! Look! A kangaroo!”… so it went when I took the kids to see the Sharmanka exhibition in An Lanntair. I knew they would love it. How could they not? It’s art in motion, […]
America is about to enter the final week of campaigning in its Presidential Election, with Donald Trump, a man we should supposedly feel some connection to as his mother came from Lewis, very much in the race. Amazingly, despite all […]
We’re heading into the Celtic festival of Samhain, the beginning of the ‘darker half’ of the year, and in Lewis that means it’s time for Faclan, The Hebridean Book Festival. Taking place in Stornoway every year around the time the […]
National Grid have dismissed claims by Lewis Wind Power and Stornoway Trust that only big renewables projects such as theirs will drive the case for the interconnector linking the mainland to the Hebrides, saying they have “no preference on […]
After blogging about the crofters taking on the multinationals over the development rights to wind turbines on Lewis last week, I was invited to a meeting by Lewis Wind Power (EDF and AMEC) in the Stornoway Trust offices to hear […]
In true David and Goliath style, a group of crofters from the Isle of Lewis are taking on the might of the multinationals by using a little known and relatively new piece of crofting law to try to claim back […]
They seem like a bit of an odd couple: the award-winning Hollywood composer behind the soundtracks to films such as Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, and the Lewis tradition bearer who’s also an elder in the Free Church. So […]
Islanders are travellers. Always have been. Scattering themselves to the furthest corners of the globe, taking their traditions, culture and cianalas with them but always remaining outward looking, open minded and downright adventurous. To my mind, it’s as much a […]