Gideon Rachman Jack Watling believes that the Strait of Hormuz is now the crux of the conflict. I began our conversation by asking him to explain why.

Each room of the brightly coloured south London home is a vignette: a crowded cabinet of curiosities and mudlarking finds that hold the secrets to her latest novel ...

Dafen once produced 60 per cent of the world’s new oil paintings — now this village of copyists is under threat ...

This week’s rejection of the US president’s Hormuz request is remarkable. But the EU is still at the mercy of events ...

It has canals, ancient palazzos and grand piazzas but for Marina O’Loughlin, the real draw is the array of traditional wine ...

Do you take your bank cards with you when you leave the house, or use your smartphone to pay for everything? It’s an issue that divides Britain, with surveys suggesting that around half of UK ...

Scale has long been argued as essential for success for asset managers by analysts, senior management teams and observers of ...

Lloyd’s of London has insured ships against being lost in wars and storms since it was a 17th-century coffee shop where captains and merchants mingled. It has experienced good times and bad, including ...

Irwin Simon said he ‘would love’ to see more women drinkers and dismissed health concerns over moderate alcohol consumption ...

If sports betting has lost its thrill, why not try something higher stakes — say, geopolitics? With the rise of prediction ...

Many months — and at least three global crises — ago, today’s EU summit was earmarked as the moment for the bloc’s leaders to ...

The data did not make a conclusive case for imminent further easing, although it would not have undermined a move before the war in the Gulf. That conflict raises the Monetary Policy Committee’s ...