Fond memories of how I met the Spanish politician and amateur bullfighter, Adolfo Suárez Illana – number two in their conservative party, Partido Popular (PP), and son of the founding Prime Minister of Spanish democracy, Adolfo Suárez González – and the number one matador of Spain for so many years, Juan José Padilla. These two were my first teachers, and first friends, in the world of the bulls.

Nice to see them surprised on Spanish television by a question on the origin of their friendship with me, although Adolfo may be overstating it when he says I am better known in Seville than himself and Padilla.

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Alexander Fiske-Harrison