John Carling has a superb reputation as a journalist - not only in English but also in Spanish (a high-level bilingual, he contributes regularly to El Pais). A Spanish colleague, Carlos Boyero, noted in his review of Invictus, Clint Eastwood"s film of the story of Playing the Enemy (El Pais, 29 January 2010), that he already knew that Carlin was brilliant at the short- and medium-length texts required in journalism,...