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My article on newspaper horseracing tipsters for The Times (full length)
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...
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The text of my speech at the University of Seville on ‘Into The Arena’
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...
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Apology and Refutation of the article about my book Into The Arena in La...
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...
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Into The Arena: A matador’s point of view…
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...
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Back Into The Arena
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...
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Bullfighting is not a moral wrong: My talk at the Edinburgh International...
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...
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533 professional bullfighters killed in the ring since 1700
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...
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World’s Scariest… Animal Attacks: The Spanish Fighting Bull – Channel 5
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...
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The Bull And The Ban – New eBook on Bullfighting and its Death…
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...
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The Spanish National Newspaper ‘ABC’s Journalism on Bullfighting Awards
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.”
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...
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A Vegan, Animal Rights activist’s book in favour of bullfighting
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...
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I will be on BBC Radio Oxford, 95.2FM, tomorrow, at 10.30am.
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...
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My article on newspaper horseracing tipsters for The Times (full length)
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...
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The text of my speech at the University of Seville on ‘Into The Arena’
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...
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Into The Arena available on Amazon Kindle as an eBook in the United States
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...
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The Chicago Tribune: Running with the Bulls
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...
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Bullfighting and the Gallup Polls: “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
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,...
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My book ‘Into The Arena’ tops GQ magazine’s recommended list
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...
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The Barcelona Ban on Bullfighting: Two Years on…
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...
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