Pince-nez aquiver on his nose, the elegant banker leaned across the wood-inlaid desk in his Zurich office last week and complained: “We have been called Shylocks, gnomes, sinister manipulators ...

The International Association for the Protection of the Garden Gnome, based in the Swiss city of Basel, has condemned a move by the German company, Griebel, to produce a female version of the ...