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

• Halloween. All Hallows Eve - the day between years.

  As children from America through to Italy celebrate Halloween, with the obligatory pumpkins and masks, the celtic and pagan origins of the festival are obscured. Berit Haugen Keyes takes a timely look at the origins and development of the festival.

  
  
• From the outside looking in – Norway and the EU

  Norway remains one of those rarer than rare things, a non-EU nation in Europe. Ten years after the Norwegians rejected full EU membership, for the second time, Berit Haugen Keyes examines the arguments both for joining and for remaining outside the EU.

  
  
• 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.

  
  
• Make it official? The Gaelic language in Europe.

  As the European Union prepares to expand the number of member states, and consequently the number of official languages, Irish language enthusiasts fight to preserve Europe's second oldest language.

  
  
• Central America's Street Gangs Are Drawn into the World of Geopolitics

  In Central America, Washington is getting serious about a problem it helped to create. Adam Wolfe, of the PINR, examines the growing problem of organized criminal gangs in Central America, and how, in part American immigration policy has helped create the problem. Now, against a backdrop of resistance to CAFTA, and growing support for the policies of both Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, the gangs may provide a useful tool for the American administration to exert influence in Central America.