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My article on newspaper horseracing tipsters for The Times (full length)

April 14, 2012, 1:27 am
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Who to back in the Grand National? Not the tipsters Alexander Fiske-Harrison April 12, 2012 The “Sport of Kings” is not something I have ever wanted to know a lot about. I’ve had the odd flutter on the Grand National or the Ascot Gold Cup, but that no more makes me an aficionado of racing [...]
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The text of my speech at the University of Seville on ‘Into The Arena’

April 24, 2012, 6:58 am
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Last Friday, before the opening of the Feria de Abril here in Seville, I gave a conference on my two perspectives on bullfighting: from far away – England – and far too close – the sand of the bullring. It was a great honour to talk in the main lecture theatre in the antique Royal [...]
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Apology and Refutation of the article about my book Into The Arena in La Divisa, magazine of the Club Taurino of London

May 6, 2012, 3:18 am
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In the next issue of La Divisa, the magazine of the Club Taurino of London, there appears the following apology by one of the editors, Jock Richardson, which I have edited for brevity:   INTO THE ARENA In my editorial in La Divisa… I spelled out my updated editorial policy. In it I wrote… “Every [...]
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Into The Arena: A matador’s point of view…

May 6, 2012, 6:47 am
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I was recently exchanging messages with a Spanish matador from Ronda, Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez, who is not only brother to a similarly noted torero, Fran Rivera, but son of one, Paquirri (killed in the ring in 1984), and grandson to one of the greatest bullfighters – Antonio Ordóñez – great nephew of one – Luis Miguel [...]
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Back Into The Arena

May 11, 2012, 8:27 am
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My last visit to Seville saw me get back into the ring with the young bulls of Astolfi to attempt to keep in practice as a torero, a ‘bullfighter’. Sadly I have no photos of that, but I do have this of me getting back into the world of the bulls from the Spanish newspaper [...]
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Bullfighting is not a moral wrong: My talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

May 13, 2012, 2:51 am
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Following the temporary cancellation of my Oxford talk on my book Into The Arena and vastly exaggerated reports of death threats etc. abounding in the Oxford Times and Oxford Mail, I thought I would repost the talk I gave at the Edinburgh International Book Festival to show quite how virulently propaganda-like my talks tend to [...]
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533 professional bullfighters killed in the ring since 1700

May 13, 2012, 3:41 am
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Given the large number of people who have wandered to this blog in search of answers about the so-called ‘conversion’ photograph of Álvaro Munera from bullfighter to animal rights activist – which is actually not of him at all – I thought that I would set another record straight that has been bothering me for [...]
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World’s Scariest… Animal Attacks: The Spanish Fighting Bull – Channel 5

May 19, 2012, 4:55 am
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For all those that missed my segment last night on Channel 5 at 9pm, on the programme ‘World’s Scariest… Animal Attacks’, it is available online here. I was talking about a Spanish fighting bull which leapt out of the ring and into the crowd in Tafalla, near Pamplona in Navarre a couple of years ago. [...]
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The Bull And The Ban – New eBook on Bullfighting and its Death…

May 20, 2012, 3:02 am
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The Bull and The Ban Interviews from both sides of the debate on the controversy surrounding bullfighting, its recent ban in the autonomous community of Catalonia and its future in Spain, the rest of Europe and the Americas… Contents: Foreword by Alexander Fiske-Harrison – writer and actor, author of Into The Arena: The World Of [...]
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The Spanish National Newspaper ‘ABC’s Journalism on Bullfighting Awards

May 29, 2012, 3:58 am
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Congratulations to Luis Nieto Manjón for winning the 5th annual ABC ‘Manuel Ramírez’ Bullfighting Journalism Award. Alexander Fiske-Harrison Sr. D. Alexander Fiske-Harrison
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Pamplona: “because – like Hemingway – you had been there.”

June 8, 2012, 12:33 pm
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Alien isn’t quite the word. You’d been taken up to a high mountain and shown things in yourself and the world, things you couldn’t deny because – like Hemingway – you had been there. The Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney’s words on the bulls sum up the experience of Pamplona so well. Just as nothing [...]
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A Vegan, Animal Rights activist’s book in favour of bullfighting

June 14, 2012, 5:05 am
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An interview -  in the original English – with the former animal rights activist, filmmaker and author Catherine Tosko on bullfighting from the Spanish ‘taurine’ website, Mitataurored (in Spanish here.) Alexander Fiske-Harrison “Where the aficionado is the protagonist“ Catherine Tosko, a British vegan filmmaker, decided to leave her country to live in Southern Spain. Impressed [...]
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I will be on BBC Radio Oxford, 95.2FM, tomorrow, at 10.30am.

June 20, 2012, 3:03 pm
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I will be talking with Malcom Boyden on his BBC Radio Oxford morning show tomorrow, June 21st, sometime after 10.30a.m. (95.2 FM or online here) about bullfighters and bullfighting and the Mexcian matador de toros Luis Freg, ‘Don Valor’, the bravest torero of the pre-antiobiotic period, who was seriously gored almost one hundred times, had [...]
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My article on newspaper horseracing tipsters for The Times (full length)

April 14, 2012, 1:27 am
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Who to back in the Grand National? Not the tipsters Alexander Fiske-Harrison April 12, 2012 The “Sport of Kings” is not something I have ever wanted to know a lot about. I’ve had the odd flutter on the Grand National or the Ascot Gold Cup, but that no more makes me an aficionado of racing [...]
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The text of my speech at the University of Seville on ‘Into The Arena’

April 24, 2012, 6:58 am
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Last Friday, before the opening of the Feria de Abril here in Seville, I gave a conference on my two perspectives on bullfighting: from far away – England – and far too close – the sand of the bullring. It was a great honour to talk in the main lecture theatre in the antique Royal [...]
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Into The Arena available on Amazon Kindle as an eBook in the United States

June 25, 2012, 3:49 am
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I am told by Profile Books that my Sports Book Of The Year shortlisted Into The Arena: The World Of The Spanish Bullfight is finally and definitively available for purchase and download – including all the original colour and black & white photos – from Amazon for customers in the United States of American here. [...]
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The Chicago Tribune: Running with the Bulls

July 21, 2012, 2:15 am
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The great young American bull-runner Bill Hillman’s article in the Chicago Tribune on James A. Michener and Ernest Hemingway ‘running the bulls’ in Pamplona, featuring quotes from Ernest’s grandson John Hemingway, myself and Joe Distler. By no coincidence, we were all three of us out in Pamplona less than a week ago drinking and running the bulls together. [...]
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Bullfighting and the Gallup Polls: “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

July 25, 2012, 2:28 am
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I was recently interviewed on the BBC and one of the people also interviewed, a representative from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), brought up an opinion poll “by Gallup” in 2006, which said that 72% of the people in Spain were “against bullfighting.” Now, putting to one side the fact that PETA’s [...]
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My book ‘Into The Arena’ tops GQ magazine’s recommended list

July 26, 2012, 6:01 am
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A few days in advance of the publication of my article for GQ magazine on the comeback to the ring of the now one-eyed bullfighter – my friend and first teacher – Juan José Padilla, the Conde Nast publication has put my Sports Book of the Year shortlisted book on the subject Into The Arena: [...]
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The Barcelona Ban on Bullfighting: Two Years on…

July 27, 2012, 10:00 pm
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Two years after the regional parliament in Barcelona voted to ban the corrida de toros, known in English as bullfighting – although not other forms of ‘playing with bulls’ – throughout Catalonia, it looks increasingly like this will piece of legislation will be overthrown by the federal government in Madrid when they, following France, make [...]
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