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. 

Actually, when I say Indian, they don’t consider themselves Indian. I am talking about the Khalistani-Kashmiri Pakistani supported alliance. An unholy alliance often groups proscribed under UK terrorism legislation.

As the American President on his visit to the UK said, the relationship with the UK is very special. That the UK will be first in line for a trade deal. That’s pretty amazing. Why isn’t India’s relationship as close with the UK. After all they...

I’ve got bad news. There isn’t enough money. Not enough for the NHS, not for the trains. I’ve spent eight hours in A&E this past week and 3 hours standing on a train from Leeds. Why standing? Because yet again the previous train was cancelled.

So will tariffs mean problems for the markets? Not really. I know it is surprising. You see tariffs do impact businesses, but not so much consumers. Tariffs are also easy to bypass, you just do what Harley is doing, move production to Europe...

For God’s sake a is stabbed and killed outside Parliament – yet a man wielding a knife outside Parliament is left untouched by Police – it happened he was using the foot long blade to cut the Indian flag. London has a knife crime problem. Knives...



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