There are public stories and there are private ones. Very occasionally, the one story will be both. The story that I’m going to tell here is profoundly personal but also so well known among Leodhasaich of a certain generation that it’s […]
Sticking with wind farms for a wee while – I have a guest blogger today, who is looking at the similarities between EDF’s massive wind farm schemes for Lewis and the Lingerbay super quarry controversy. In particular, he is looking […]
The main story in Stornoway this week is that there’s an election happening soon – for five people to be elected to the Stornoway Trust and effectively become our landlords. For the benefit of those who don’t know, the Stornoway […]
Readers, here is something that I think is rather special. Guesting on the blog tonight are three very fine fellow island bloggers — all of them women. As International Women’s Day week comes to a close, I’ve put together a […]
It’s been nearly a month since the deadline for objections to the Scottish Land Court over the plans by Lewis Wind Power — AKA multinationals EDF Energy and Amec-Foster-Wheeler, in partnership with landowners Stornoway Trust — to develop a 36-turbine […]
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 […]
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 […]
Imagine being evicted from your croft home and resettled in a challenging environment where you had to start all over again in cultivating the land. Imagine then having to fight tooth and nail, for half a century, for the right […]
I lived in Glasgow for 17 years and I always said I would never move back to Lewis. I remember the moment I changed my mind. I was out for a run in the Castle Grounds. This is a place […]