Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
Ancient rites in Madrid
The oldest of stories still attract us
From Lima with love
Around the world to watch the bullfights
Blood and beauty
Bullfighting magnificence in Santander
Bull market
José Tomás is a titan of the bullring, but does he live up to his reputation?
Studio: The “Fallas” of Valencia
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
Sublime in Seville
Happiness is a cold, autumnal day with a warm gun
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
Taurine state of grace
Christopher North joins the devoted cult of the elegant, enigmatic bullfighter José Tomás
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
