That the US President has appointed as de facto CEO of the US, an Army General should not be a surprise.
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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 01:34am 5th Dec 2025
Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: The UK India Tech Exchange
- 13 Mar 2024
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
- 14 Feb 2024
Independent minded and giving strength to the rest of the nation is what the Spartans were known for.
They nearly did it. The Indian cricket team nearly won the world cup in cricket. The women came a lot closer than the men.
No, I do not mean the US President. The Government liked the idea of promoting what a Dealmaker does on a day by day basis. So I thought I would pick a day where all I was doing was not the day job of running a fund, but my Government role full...
- 11 Jul 2017
I was speaking on the BBC recently about newspaper and fake news.
The Chinese are complaining of Indian incursion into ‘Chinese territory’ this week. Awwww….bless.
- 20 Jun 2017
In 1995 I worked for a US Congressman. He is still in the US Congress. His name is Eliot Engel. One of my jobs was to collect the signatures of the other Senators and Congressman who supported one of his Resolutions put before Congress and letters...
An Indian Bollywood actress met the PM of India. She wore a knee-length skirt. The anger this unleashed broke the internet.
‘More Money Monthly’ could be a mantra for the ‘JAMs’ the ‘just about managing’.
The world of politics is not the only place I am sure. But the hanger-on or ‘chamcha’ is proliferating. I am not sure if this is because of social media, but this is the person who bows double in front of people they perceive important. I don’t...
Who will make you better off? Conservatives, Labour, Coalition, me?
