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. 

Let me tell you the story of a British Indian grandmother. She was born in India, lived in Kenya then moved to the UK in the late 1960s. She was an unassuming lady. At a recent election, at around 2145, just before the polling booths were about...

Over the past fortnight I have visited the three most important Democracies in the world – US (as it prepares for an election), UK of course, and now in India (the largest). What do you find in such close examination? Something startling.

“It is nothing short of a miracle…which has called men from the uttermost ends of the earth… and which has caused human beings to do the most incalculable, improvident and, from a narrow point of view, profitless things.” This was Winston Churchill...

I am a Conservative. I won’t attack individual candidates in the London Mayoralty elections.  But I am a Conservative. I believe less Government is good, fewer regulations and the resultant greater freedoms. I want as Mayor the person whose...



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