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Roderick Matthews

Roderick Matthews specialises in Indian history. He is the author of Jinnah vs Gandhi and Mountbatten and the Partition of British India

Essay
Divided and Angry

Behind Britain’s riots lies the politics of unfairness

23 August 2024
Essay
British Monarchy: Clouds over Windsor

Illness as a metaphor

29 March 2024
Essay
Sunak In Search of a Miracle

As 2024 looks scary, can he do a vintage Boris Johnson?

06 October 2023
Charles the Last?
Essay
Charles the Last?

A 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 2023
Naipaul Under the Woke Gaze
Essay
Naipaul Under the Woke Gaze

Why we should read what he had to say

31 March 2023
The Rage of the Spare Prince
Columns
The Rage of the Spare Prince

The misery memoir of a lost prince

13 January 2023
Essay
What a Hindu prime minister can do to an English ideology

The new conservatives

09 December 2022
Essay
A Prayer for Britain

Liz Truss has made a perfect mess of everything in the shortest time possible

14 October 2022
The Royal Reckoning
Columns
The Royal Reckoning

By her stature, Queen Elizabeth II had kept at bay questions that must be answered now. But is Britain ready?

16 September 2022
A Prayer for Boris
Cover Story
A Prayer for Boris

The pandemic too shall pass, but it will leave the UK with an experience comparable only to the two World Wars

10 April 2020