Animal Fairm is a 2022 translation into Scots of George Orwell’s classic satire on Stalinist (and in far too many ways, modern conservative) politics and ideology. As the cover of this edition says, it was “translatit intae Scots by Thomas Clark.” I recently purchased the book for my reading entertainment.
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump Goes After The Pets Of America
We know that Donald Trump is a ghastly beast, one who resembles the porky Napoleon in Orwell's Animal Farm. The one who betrays the other animals, like Trump is betraying millions of Americans including many of his own supporters… But it's not just people he's threatening to kill. He's going
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Stephen Harper Sold the Canadian Farm
Well it took him almost ten years, to destroy Canada as we once knew it. But I see Stephen Harper and his porky Cons have finally sold the farm. A free-trade deal that opens a small part of the Canadian dairy market to cheaper foreign imports could spell the beginning of
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