Rewriting George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' the Maltese way

Abstract

No, this piece is not a book review of George Orwell's famous satirical allegorical novel Animal Farm, published after the Second World War in 1945. I am presuming that the reader is already familiar with it. If not, l suggest that it is read before going through this contribution. Normally I write on legal issues but for this time, I implored the Editor's clemency to please permit me to digress from law anti justice subjects to roam freely into the wild exciting world of social literature and contemporary local politics. Of course, I could well have - like George M. Mangion writing in last Sunday's edition of this newspaper - chosen instead Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by way of an analogy.