A few days ago, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon declared a Climate Emergency, during her speech to the SNP conference. She pledged that Scotland would “lead by example” as our obligations to the next generation are “the most important we carry”. […]
A massive, celebratory, shout-out, this International Women’s Day, to all those women who strive for better, who go against the grain, who stick their heads above the parapet and generally dare to live their lives in a way that does […]
So Lewis Wind Power were consulting yet again last week, on their fourth proposed version of Stornoway Wind Farm. What a complete mess this whole thing is. What I’m going to deal with in this blog, however, is not LWP’s […]
A shocker for Lewis – today’s revelation that the Scottish Land Court has ruled in favour of the Melbost and Branahuie Grazings Committee in their battle with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited over the disputed land at Stornoway Airport. The […]
‘Dynamite’ – that was the word used by one land reform veteran on Twitter about the guest post by Lewis Kermack the other night, on the subject of Stornoway Trust’s lease to Lewis Wind Power. The article, Who Is Your […]
On the eve of the Scottish Land Court hearing into the case of Lewis Wind Power versus The Crofters, I have brought in a guest blogger with a special interest… Scots land law. And he is going to be looking […]
If you are from Lewis or Harris, you cannot fail to have noticed the many types of memorial we are having right now to the Iolaire tragedy. Many of us will attend a good number of them but there will […]
Tuesday afternoon – and it’s wet and horrible in Stornoway. A thoroughly dreich day. We love talking about the weather, us Hebrideans, and it’s been pretty foul since Sunday. Not Saturday, though. Saturday was lovely. In fact, Saturday was incredible. […]
Back on familiar ground with today’s blog – wind farms. It’s a guest blog, though, and I am very pleased indeed to be able to share this piece with you, from none other than Alastair McIntosh, a man widely regarded […]
I’ve never had a response to a story like the one I had this past week, to the tale about Alex Dan – my uncle, who made history by undergoing the first lung transplant in Europe in a bid to […]