We're living in a period when, according to Paul Wilson - translator of amongst others Vaclav Havel -George Orwell's newspeak is being replaced by pr speak. He speaks to Horatio Morpurgo about censorship, the cold war, and the language of democracy....
The publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960 by Penguin founder Allen Lane, in the face of prosecution for obscenity, was widely credited as ushering in the 'swinging sixties'. In an intimate and complex portrait, Lane's Grandson (and regular TMO co...
The route of a bypass in an underdeveloped corner of one of Europe's lesser 'developed' countries, Poland, has caused an argument with much wider ramifications. Horatio Morpurgo delves into the wider issues involved in the controversial Augustow by-pass....
What connection does the rural backwater of Rosia Montana, have to European integration and Global climate change? Horatio Morpurgo mines the controversy surrounding a Canadian company's plans for a small Romanian town, and finds food for thought for wes...
Mary Midgley is one of Britain's leading philosophers. Highly critical both of religious fundamentalism, and at the same time blind faith in 'sociobiology', Midgley recently spoke to Three Monkeys Online. On the table for discussion were the role of philo...
In November 2004 Horatio Morpurgo flew into Kiev, on his way to report on a Nature reserve for an ecological magazine. By chance he found himself in the midst of the Orange revolution. Morpurgo gives his eye-witness account of the Ukranian Orange revoluti...
There’s a recurrent phrase in Cristi Puiu’s most recent film, the significance of which will not immediately be obvious to viewers outside Romania. In this story of a retired and widowed engineer’s last hours there’s a small matter on which one do...
A chance encounter on the banks of the Danube reminds Horatio Morpurgo that, while the EU prepares to accept Romania and Bulgaria into its ranks, these countries provide a precious doorway into the history of Europe....
Horatio Morpurgo writes about the environment, flying around the globe in the process. A contradiction? Musing on his carbon footprints, Morpurgo visited the Centre for Alternative technology, in Wales....
Samuel Butler as a novelist has had an influence on writers as diverse as E.M.Forster and Saul Bellow. But he also contributed to the emerging debate on evolution provoked by Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species. Horatio Morpurg...
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