Horatio Morpurgo
Horatio Morpurgo studied History at Cambridge and after jobs in hospitals, trains, churches and schools he began to work as a journalist. His work, mainly on literary themes or concerned with European affairs, has appeared in Three Monkeys Online, London Magazine, Edinburgh Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Resurgence, New Internationalist, Aretè, Contemporary Review etc. He lives in the south west of England.
By Horatio Morpurgo - Articles published in Three Monkeys Online
Poland's Problem with Eco-Terrorists
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....
Rosia Montana: Consumerism and its Disconnects
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...
Books by and an Interview with: Mary Midgley
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...
‘Keeping the Tempo’: The Orange Revolution Remembered
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...
Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr Lazarescu
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...
Sucidava
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....
Understanding Climate Change - or Why I should Fly Less
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, or Sociobiology for Grown-Ups
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...
