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
  • Heart of Whiteness

    Sporting a scar running from his ankle to hip from when he was attacked by a buffalo several years ago, Hon. Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley, scion of Kenya’s Delamare dynasty, sounds like s
  • Le mot juste

    The 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert was famous for his attention to detail. He was reputed to spend over a week agonizing over a single sentence, weighing up each word’s exact shad
  • The Fate of ex-Dictators?

    And so, as sure as the Seasons change, the centre-left government has started talking about reforming Italy
  • Demography ain’t Destiny

    In a recent issue of The New Yorker, an article by pop-sociologist Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink) yokes together the decline of General Motors and the rise of Ireland Inc. Th
  • Bertie’s “Tink-In”

    On Monday Fianna F�il senators and TDs gathered in Westport, Co. Mayo for their annual “think-in.” One suspects that such events are designed as much to send out signals about the party&
  • Not Funny Ha Ha

    Der Spiegel’s English-language website features an article on the latest “taboo-breaking” book on the Third Reich to appear in Germany. The book in question, Heil Hitler, The Pig is
  • Inciting Hatred?

    Our last post discussed the furore caused by the publication, on the part of the Italian Union of Islamic Communities and Organisations (UCOII), of an
  • The art of nit-picking

    Recently, a billboard on the N8 route near the Port Laoise bypass, advertising “Frans Crash Repairs,” was castigated by self-appointed guardians of grammatical purity, the Apostrophe Prote