Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Statistics

    Blaming the opinion pollsters (see earlier entry) is usually the resort of the washed-up but sometimes you have to wonder. In this weekend’s Gazeta Wyborcza there are two articles concerning, am
  • Madeleine and Mortgages

    Snapshot of what’s concerning readers of the online Daily Telegraph as of lunchtime, Friday September 7:(The thought struck me today whether the obsessive focus by the media on this individual t
  • …Or Does Fear Work?

    One opinion poll puts the ruling regime ahead. Another, conducted a day ot two later puts rivals PO ahead by a good 8 points.
  • The Perfect Spy

    There’s an interesting short piece in this week’s Polityka, which I have started reading again on account of how they seem to know what the government/state prosecution office is going to
  • Newsnight goes Italian

    One of the favoured ‘journalistic’ tricks used by Italian newscasters is the addition of suitable music to add drama to any story. Newsnight, the bastion of British broadcasting – st
  • The Tao of Bertie

    A wise man, who has risen above the distractions of mere commonplace things, will eventually discover that much can be achieved by apparently doing sweet FA.
  • Economist Smackdown

    Now that every news mag in the U.S. wishes it were more like The Economist (see the “Reagan’s Tears” cover for an example of Time‘s new Econo-like look), the New York Observer
  • Reading On Stage

    The news that Dublin’s central library will move from the rather grim precincts of the Ilac Centre to the grandiose, albeit down-at-heel, Ambassador cinema building seems like evidence of one of
  • The Beauty of the Free Market

    As you approach Kraków, or any other town in Poland, it becomes clear that when it comes to advertising billboards, anything goes. Confirmation of the abundant evidence of the outraged senses comes t