Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: The UK India Tech Exchange

On the panel as Dealmaker in the Department for Business and Trade, in the Indian High Commission and FICCI event, I am looking for in the Global Entrepreneur Programme scale up companies whose founders would be suitable for the UK Innovator...

Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: This Is India’s Sparta – Karamsad

Independent minded and giving strength to the rest of the nation is what the Spartans were known for. 

Inflation can bring down Governments. It can also bring about war – thankfully less so in Europe than in the past (I’m thinking of Germany). Inflation can also bring disaster to an economy rapidly, for instance the European Exchange Rate Mechanism...

When I was working in the US Congress as an intern, my undergraduate thesis in my politics degree was about ‘Abortion and the Supreme Court’ and specifically about why the issue was no longer devisive. Well, I wrote too soon. I did for that...

Consider this - the 2005 election gave Labour 355 MPs over Conservative’s 197 and an overall Parliamentary majority of 66. But this hides exactly the advantages in our electoral system which is locking in Labour. First, Labour’s dispersion of...

There is no such right. There is the right to free speech. But you’d be a fool to use such privilege to spew bile as much as having a beautiful house and burning it down.

There is an old stock market maxim that says we should "sell in May and go away." Like most proverbs or cliches, it has a foundation in truth. From the 1950s to 2013, the Dow Jones Industrial Average saw lower returns between May and October...



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