Our Man in Gdańsk

• Front Page
• Current Affairs
• History
• Music
• Food and Drink
• Literature/Books
• Travel and Sport
• Film
• Submit a story
• Book Reviews
• Film Reviews
• Music Reviews
• Submit a review

Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• 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.

  
  
• Balancing the Renaissance - Tim Parks on Medici Money

  Fifteenth Century Florence was the centre of the artistic explosion we now term the renaissance. It was also home to the relatively new profession of banking, which, for families like the Medici, created the wealth which was used to patronise the arts. English novelist Tim Parks talks to Three Monkeys Online about the Medici, usury, and the uneasy relationship, then and now, between money, art, and religion.

  
  
• Dictatorship of the Intellect

  Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel prize winning Polish poet died on August 14th. Robert Looby looks at his work, and the context of his poetry.

  
  
• Rocco Buttiglione Responds - The Moral Maze Part II

  Italian Minister Rocco Buttiglione brought the European Commission into crisis in 2004. In a recent interview in Three Monkeys Online, on ethics and morality, Dr. Richard Holloway criticised Buttiglione's decision to stand for the commission. In this interview Professor Buttiglione responds to the criticism, and gives Three Monkeys Online an alternative guide through the moral maze.

  
  
• Drowning the Shamrock. The place of drink in the Irish national holiday, St. Patrick's day.

  St. Patrick's day is celebrated by the Irish worldwide, usually with parades and pints. It hasn't always been the case, and, in fact, in the nascent Irish Republic of the 1920's the national holiday was a dry one, at least in terms of alcohol.