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The Last Arena is back holiday… After a few moments of seriousness following the goring of my brother-in-arms Bill Hillmann, I have returned to lighter former, including the trampling of another...
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Experienced bull-runner gored by bull: isn’t it ironic? I don’t think…
En castellano aquí. An Op-Ed I wrote a fortnight ago, but Bill beat me to the punch – unsurprising from a much better boxer than I would ever have been – and got his in The Washington Post instead…...
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Marlon Brando: “When he’s gone, the rest move up a notch.”
I’m moving the bullfighting portion of this blog onto a new site, ‘The Last Arena’, because my work is returning to its pre-Into The Arena diversity, however, until then, it will be a rum mix. Now,...
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P.S. Blunt, Bryant and Brando
Further to my post below, I just published this in The Spectator … http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/culturehousedaily/2015/01/blunt-is-right-being-posh-in-the-arts-is-career-suicide/ I wonder whether...
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The Last Arena has moved…
The entire bullfighting content of this blog has now moved onto its own blog, which still goes under the old name of The Last Arena and can be found by clicking here…
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Back to the bulls – from St-Jean-de-Luz to Pamplona
Hôtel La Réserve, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France (Photo: Alexander Fiske-Harrison) St-Jean-de-Luz has provided the most amazing break away from Pamplona for my fiancée and I, but now I must return to...
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Seville in September
Alexander Fiske-Harrison in front of the Cathedral of Seville (Photo: Samantha Mullins) Having spent the early part of the summer writing the second edition of the Wallpaper* City Guide: Madrid for...
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Unpopular Truths: Bullfighting & Sufism, Beauty & Wisdom
Ignoring prejudice and observing the real. AFH at the final corrida of Juan José Padilla in Seville (Photo: Klarina Pichler) I recently did an interview with fellow author – a specialist on Spanish...
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THE LAST ARENA: The Great Bulls Of Pamplona
I am completing the conversion of my taurine blog ‘The Last Arena: In Search Of The Spanish Bullfight‘ into the reference site in the English language that it by now should already be. My latest...
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Bulls and Horses, Horses and Bulls…
Famed ‘Torrestrella’ bull-breeder – and founder of the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art – Álvaro Domecq Romero, Spain’s number one matador Juan José Padilla, author Alexander Fiske-Harrison,...
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My Travel Column In The Daily Telegraph: Pamplona’s spectacular bull-runs are...
For the original article, available to subscribers only, please click here Pamplona’s spectacular bull-runs are too often misunderstood ALEXANDER FISKE-HARRISON “I’d much rather be a Spanish fighting...
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