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“Decapitation is not the end,” says John Authers on Bloomberg. “Anne Boleyn’s lips moved as her head was displayed to the crowd after her execution.” The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatoll

“Was that it?” A friend who used to be in the oil business and has seen quite a few spikes in the oil price was underwhelmed by Monday’s increase of around 7% in the price of Brent crude. The move was

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

How Beijing’s carefully calibrated support has helped sustain Moscow as it fights Ukraine—without crossing key red lines

The conflict between Kyiv and Moscow has become one of attrition, analysts say, with both sides paying a high price for small gains