Roderick Matthews specialises in Indian history. He is the author of Jinnah vs Gandhi and Mountbatten and the Partition of British India
As 2024 looks scary, can he do a vintage Boris Johnson?
06 October 2023A degree of indifference and political inertia may preserve the British monarchy for now, but too much has changed that can never be recreated
05 May 2023The new conservatives
09 December 2022Liz Truss has made a perfect mess of everything in the shortest time possible
14 October 2022By her stature, Queen Elizabeth II had kept at bay questions that must be answered now. But is Britain ready?
16 September 2022The pandemic too shall pass, but it will leave the UK with an experience comparable only to the two World Wars
10 April 2020