The power of gossippublished Tue, Nov 03 2009 18:05 GMT
Andy Beckett meets the rightwing mischief-maker whose 'tittle tattle' is feared by cabinet ministersFor a decade starting in the early 90s, every July a young Irishman with a reckless side used to head for Pamplona. He and friends would take part in the Spanish city's famous Running of the Bulls. As he got older and stouter, the Irishman kept ahead of the bulls by running steadily less, of the course.By 2002, when he was 35, "I used to wait in the town square about halfway along the track and run from there," he remembers. "That year, the cannon goes off for the start. I carry on chatting to a nervous boy from Essex. I tell him, 'Just wait until we see ...
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