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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2nd Feb 2026 | Updated at 05:58pm 2nd Feb 2026
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.
From UK battling doping in Football to India and gambling in cricket, to global tennis, FIFA and athletics, sport and controversy go hand in hand – as I recently commented on BBC. How does the behind the scene politics of these things work?...
I write to you from Taiwan, at a time when the Government of India advertises strongly ‘Make in India’ and the British government has suffered huge losses as no one seems to want to make steel in Britain, but they sure do want to make cars…and...
‘The State of our Union is Strong’ proclaimed Barack Obama last week. This past week also saw India celebrate Republic Day. On January 26th 1950, some two and half years after becoming a British Dominion (or ‘independent’), India became a Republic....
- 20 Jan 2016
‘Hindu Born British Terrorist’ – doesn’t make sense does it? Well that’s Britain’s most wanted man. It’s the man in the ISIS videos. This has been plastered all over BBC News – ‘from a Hindu family’.
- 12 Jan 2016
As the US elections heat up and focus on a President Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering America, Islam has always been a part of America's story.
Throughout the year, the weak and the voiceless have begged the powerful for help. If Christmas is about anything, it is about the voiceless, the weak. For 2016 – will we listen? Will we have faith in our own humanity?
Dear Financial Voice Reader,So Lord Sugar has his business partner in BBC’s the Apprentice. I see a lot of business plans each week from people with various propositions. The one thing that usually let’s them down, and I saw this just this week...
- 17 Dec 2015
The UK is buzzing and it’s not just because the visit of PM Modi – although that is definitely one reason. Ever since the London Olympics put the global spotlight on the nation to allow at long last a British Prime Minister to claim credibly...
God there are some bad arguments for going to war – and they crowd out the good ones. Let alone us being out-thought and entrapped by cave dwelling desert nutjobs that are ISIS.
