Let us take the example of London, a huge and extraordinary city. However, other people live basically locally. They can (before and after Covid-19) through the city to paint or move to the theater or whatever, but above all they buy and enjoy their recreational activities where they live: why move to Piccadilly Circus, where all the tourists are, when they can? you go to the local café on the street?
If Covid-19 has taught us anything, it’s that local outlets have had to get in tune. Together with the network volunteers, they were the ones who made the home deliveries and kept the exhibit on the way: the butcher, the fishmonger, the shopkeeper, the post office, the cooperative, to call some, they were great. Why do we deserve to betray this loyalty and service by addressing the major inverness supermarkets when closing is facilitated?
Retail services, however, are only one component of the landscape. For rural areas like the one I live in, economic progression is also critical. Basically, it means jobs. What jobs and industries can we expand here in the Highlands to stop the continued exile of young people to big cities?
This trend has been going on for centuries, and rightly so. In my own home, the island of South Uist, when I developed, school education ended at age 14 or in Portree or Inverness if you were from the Protestant island of North Uist. Few have returned.
It was only with the reorganization of the local government in 1975 that academics from the southern islands (Barra, Eriskay, South Uist, Benbecula, Grimsay, North Uist and Berneray) had access to post-14 education on the islands. Not on their own island, but in the wonderful city of Stornoway, where they stayed. That was in 1990 before Uist (North and South) had his own school in Liniclate in Benbecula. Bar, however, received this basic right and was given his own high school in 1992.
Therefore, for generations, young islanders have literally known outdoors in their communities. The (sea) road to the mainland was driven by a lack of jobs, so expanding the local economy has been vital. And what a massive subject that goes back centuries.
The land has been a challenge and is at the heart of the challenge. Hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the Highlands are in personal hands for sporting and investment purposes, and while buying net paintings has somewhat reversed this trend in recent years, land and housing costs remain the main obstacles for young people who need to paint in the health of their home.
The last, and infrequently deploded, the Highland and Island Development Council was established in 1965 (with an initial staff of only six people) in the intoxicating era of Harold Wilson’s government on the “white heat of technology.” He was able to give the neighborhood a voice and condiment, even though there was a lot of trouble along the way. Too often, his mantra was helping “big industries” such as the Invergordon smelter (which in fact brought thousands of jobs to the area). They also have a wonderfully experimental aura, ranging from the help of a fragrance shed in Barra to the splendid tulip. Bulb. North Uist. But if you don’t try, it’s not successful, and it’s a huge tragedy that early venture capital and venture companies have succumbed to Thatcherite’s newest “companies.” Years.
I am that Wick’s progression is related to an herbal product, unlike a commercial product, algae.
I grew up in Boisdale, which in my training years had a splendid Alginate Industries Factory: local crofters collected algae, which they then processed and ended up in ice cream cones in Blackpool and lipstick in Paris.
So, good luck to Wick’s seaweed snack business. We have a lot of herbal products, on land, on the coast and at sea, which are blank and healthy and are the basis of a smart life. Fresh salmon and seaweed?
Angus Peter Campbell is an actor and award-winner of Uist
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