By the sword The Kiss-Off Alexander Fiske-Harrison As the British press draw themselves bloated and bloody-faced from their feeding frenzy on...
By the sword The Starch in the Social Fabric Alexander Fiske-Harrison Driving around Spain, one notices all the castles. That’s quite a thing to notice fo...
By the sword A Paean to Pamplona Alexander Fiske-Harrison In 2009 I first came to Pamplona to run with the bulls. I was terrified in that complete a...
By the sword He Who Would Battle Monsters Alexander Fiske-Harrison My friend Hugh Dancy came to London this week while on a break before filming a series abo...
By the sword The Second-Hand Men Alexander Fiske-Harrison Last week I drove from Seville to Ronda, its great rival for primacy in the bullfighting w...
By the sword The Freedom of Disunity Alexander Fiske-Harrison Last week I gave a talk on my pet topic of bullfighting in front of various politicos from...
By the sword The Difference Between Killing and Murder Alexander Fiske-Harrison Returning to London from Seville I see that abortion is once again one of the top news sto...
By the sword Among the Gold and Gore Alexander Fiske-Harrison Last night while seated in the La Maestranza bullring of Seville to watch the great matado...
By the sword The Ancient Contract Between Man and Wolf Alexander Fiske-Harrison The incident reads like a sick contemporary rewrite of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. A four...
By the sword Another Battle Lost on the Playing-Fields of Eton Alexander Fiske-Harrison Referring to his most famous victory at the educational establishment he and so many of hi...
By the sword Dying in Hemingway’s Shadow Alexander Fiske-Harrison In 1941, in the plaza de toros of Mexico City, a nineteen-year-old audience member made fo...