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
  • Typo Tycoons

    We all make mistakes. Lord knows, I do (having noticed this morning that I spelt the surname of the man who I sort-of-hope will be the next Taoiseach as “Kenney”!). But in this “know
  • Downside of democracy

    With the media moratorium on election coverage due to fall like a sheet over a disfigured corpse, it is time to reflect, even if it sets your teeth on edge, on the campaigns that are rapidly winding d
  • Hear no evil. Italian politicos trash the BBC

    A leading Italian current affairs programme has opted to buy the BBC documentary ‘Sex Crimes and the Vatican’ to be transmitted this Thursday along with a studio debate. In most of the fre
  • Bloom in a Chevy

    The American author Richard Ford is scheduled to give a reading at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre on June 6. I’m currently immersed in his latest novel, The Lay of the Land, a real baggy monster w
  • Utopia

    As chancellor it was his [Thomas More’s] duty to enforce the laws against heretics […] As he himself wrote in his “Apologia” (cap. 49) it was the vices of heretics that he hate
  • Conflict of Interest

    In the week that Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset announced a take over of Dutch programming giant Endemol, as if by coincidence, Romano Prodi’s government are starting to chart the waters for
  • Lost in the Circus

    It’s been reported that J.K. Rowling has now pledged a “staggering” sum to the reward for the safe return of Madeleine McCann, the four-year-old English girl who was abducted in Port
  • Sleaze

    I don’t have the heart to explain all the “lustration” shenanigans in Poland so I will just throw out a few comments for those who have been following it, but perhaps not that closely, and perha
  • Bad Coffee and Fluorescent Lighting

    You’re likely to relish Joshua Ferris’s acclaimed debut novel, Then We Came to The End, if you enjoy narratives that revoice the 19th century’s omniscient narrator as a sardonic firs