In the party’s platform, formulated via a ­process of online public participation, Podemos states that it aims to impose “prohibition on ­tauromachy”.

An English clergyman and his daughter, who had expressed an abhorrence for tauromachy in my presence, had overheard Constantino's temptation, and hence my behaviour.

To stimulate them now, the dogs or the banderillas de fuego, both alien to true tauromachy, would have to be called in.