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
  • No party for old men? Veltroni excludes De Mita

    Last week PD leader Walter Veltroni made a dramatic move, excluding Ciriaco de Mita from the list of candidates to be presented at the upcoming elections. De Mita, who turned 80 in february, first ser
  • Education

    A week or two ago a bunch of sociologists published the shocking (to Poles) results of a survey they took among Polish academics. They cautioned that the study was biased because mostly those who were
  • Free Milk

    In the late 1960s, in a bold and unorthodox move, the government of Ireland introduced the free milk scheme for primary school children. Under the terms of the scheme, pushed through an unwilling Dail
  • 100 Days

    A momentous time has come to Poland. For my eldest daughter it was time to take herself to the “hundred days ball” – a kind of a disco in gladrags held one hundred days before the school leaving
  • Attention to Detail – Television

    Watching a God-awful soap the other night I saw somebody pay for two or three items in a supermarket. The cost was exactly four zloties, which aroused my suspicions. Those suspicions were confirmed wh
  • Jewish Professors singled out by right-wing blog

    A particularly vile right-wing blog, here in Italy, has been all over the news after having published a long list of Jewish Professors working in Italian Universities. The blog has been taken down by
  • Beat the Censor

    Janusz Głowacki used to smuggle criticism past the censor by dressing it up as extravagant praise, comparing favourably, for instance, the since-forgotten socialist realist book Głupia sprawa (A Sil
  • More Unions

    “Don’t worry, trade unionists. The government is not going to change the law to emasculate you.” “What? The government is going to change the law to emasculate us?” ̶
  • The Public gets What the Politicians Want

    Government by opinion poll is probably not the best way to run a country: bye bye art, culture, education; hello football, soap operas and institutionalized bribery – no wait, that’s not what I wa