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
  • Framing the Debate

    Today’s Gazeta Wyborcza contains an article on Chavez and Morales which is too outrageously partisan to pass up even though I’ve mentioned the subject before. It’s by Maciej Stasińs
  • More intellectualism

    Today’s Rzeczpospolita has a mercifully short report on a conference organised by the Szkoła Główna Handlowa (literally: Main School of Trade) in Warsaw. A picture of its former rector Marek
  • Intelligentsia II

    I know little about Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz but he seems to think along my lines so he is clearly a genius. Here is an article he wrote about intellectuals and ignoramuses for those readers who speak Po
  • Solidarity? What solidarity?

    You would think that with their glorious and recent history of trade unionism the Poles would know a thing or two about striking. Today’s Dziennik carries a story about the doctors’ strike
  • Intelligentsia

    Sometimes you have to laugh (or if you’re Henryk Grynberg, sneer) at decadent Westerners who have never experienced totalitarianism. In Gazeta Wyborcza (May 6th) a page (actually, many pages) is
  • Habemus Gubernaculum

    A coalition government for Poland has finally been agreed. This time it even has a majority, as the LPR (League of Polish Families) got onside when (because?) an extra three ministries were created to
  • Oligarchy of the Aged – The Italian Presidential 'Race'.

    Tony Blair looking towards his favourite mediterranean holiday destination this week would, no-doubt, feel hard-done-by. While the UK and international press had a field day when Blair’s bully b
  • Chavez Via the US State Department

    Media Lens has a good article about Chavez coverage in Britain. Meanwhile in Poland Rzeczpospolita makes a much better attempt than Gazeta Wyborcza to disguise its disdain for Chavez in today’s
  • Liberated from the line-dancing gestapo – The Music of Gillian Welch

    “Ain’t No One Soul In the Whole World Knows My Name But It’sWritten Up In the Sky And I’ll See It By and By”. [GillianWelch. No One Knows My Name]. Visualise a world with