Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Distorted Self-Perception – Nazi Rock and the hobbits

    This monkey just managed to get his hands on a copy of NaziRock, the new documentary by film-maker Claudio Lazzaro. The film takes a look at the neo-nazi scene in Italy, focussing in particular on a n
  • The substance remains – The Irish vote on the Lisbon Treaty

    Three years ago I wrote anarticle on the European Constitution, or to be more precise, the treaty to establish a Constitution for Europe. When the editor asked me to revisit the subject on the occasio
  • The Napoli Solution Goes Nuclear

    Underneath the mountains of rubbish that litter the streets of Napoli and surrounding towns lies a complex, profitable, and extremely dangerous system run by the Camorra. In essence, for years this or
  • Trasformismo and the Italian mortgage crisis

    One of the first moves of Berlusconi’s new government was for the Finance minister Giulio Tremonti to announce that an agreement had been reached with the Italian banking association (ABI) to al
  • State to Subsidise Private Industry

    In a straight news article it can sometimes be difficult to figure out where the reporter’s sympathies lie but for the careful observer there are a few clues. Take the article in today’s Dziennik
  • Dancing with Demons

    It was, in a sense, a political exorcism. At least Fabrizio Cicchitto, a leading member of Berlusconi’s Popolo della Libertà  would have had us believe. On the 14th of may, at the first sittin
  • Translators’ Rights

    After the years of whinging about lack of recognition, low status and how people think that anyone who knows two languages can translate translators – at least in Poland – are finally gaining some
  • An 'untimely death' in Verona

    By chance this week, this monkeys saw an episode of the truly terrible Francesco’s Italy (worth watching, if you turn the sound down), where host Count Francesco Da Mosta pulled his alfa-romeo s
  • An ‘untimely death’ in Verona

    By chance this week, this monkeys saw an episode of the truly terrible Francesco’s Italy (worth watching, if you turn the sound down), where host Count Francesco Da Mosta pulled his alfa-romeo s