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Freelance journalist and editor. Contributor to Private Eye, Culture Trip, Bookwitty, Gate-37, Rediff.com, Huffington Post and others. Special interests in crisis reporting, media analysis, political and social issues. Occasional journalism lecturer and English teacher.
Nepal Earthquake
There is a world of difference between the Kathmandu portrayed in much of the international news media and the Kathmandu I see in the few hours I venture out everyday from my earthquake-proof flat in the southern suburbs of the city.
The road was blocked by a large digger, tipping smashed masonry into a truck and villagers worked to clear debris in the pounding midday sun. Dust from the rubble hung heavily in the air. To see the storeys-high piles of bricks, cement and twisted metal, it was difficult to believe that work had gone on for a long time.
A visit to the Madhes region of Nepal to find the truth behind the movement for Madheshi rights and the blockade of oil entering the country.
International reports
The Bloody Legacy of America's War on Vietnam It can be easy to forget the bloody history inflicted on Vietnam when you take a walk through modern Saigon. Trendy coffee shops and bars line the avenues, filled with young people tapping away at iPhones and laptops.
Hundreds of refugees from Libya were left to drown by Nato ships, survivors told Socialist Worker. They say that their sinking vessel appealed for help from passing Nato and Italian ships, but none would stop. The United Nations (UN) says that more than 150 people died when a boat overloaded with 850 refugees fleeing Libya's capital Tripoli sank in the Mediterranean last Friday.
The BJP has 10,000 registered members in Vadodara and their most important strategy has been to pay special attention to the electoral list, which runs to 25,000 pages, with between 45 and 48 voter names per page.
Previous work
Chronicling the rebuilding of Nepal through everyday stories. A collaborative journalism project facilitated by GlobalBU.
Documentaries
UK reports
"It's got to be a dream, being stuck in a library," said Laura Swaffield, speaking through the metal gate, "and such a great building." Laura was one of several hundred people who had taken over the Carnegie Library, in south London's Herne Hill.
Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood defends government plans to cut over 1,000 jobs at the Environment Agency, despite his own calls for more funding to prevent coastal erosion.
Dorset Police are investigating supporters of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) for allegedly threatening to "torch a halal" butcher shop in Bournemouth.
Interviews
Shubhangini Raje Gaekwad, the Rajmata of Baroda, on why she supports Narendra Modi for prime minister.
Matter is the seventh science fiction novel by Iain Banks about "the Culture". He talks to Patrick Ward about writing, utopias, and New Labour.
Mordechai Vanunu was jailed for 18 years after exposing Israel’s nuclear weapons. He defied a gagging order to tell Patrick Ward and Stewart Halforty about his ordeal.
Investigations
Police in Bournemouth were 10 times more likely to stop and search black people than white people last year. The statistic comes following a freedom of information request to Dorset Police from the Breaker. It shows that 2,776 people were stopped and searched in Bournemouth in 2013.
A breakdown of candidates in the first five stages of the election offers a fascinating insight into the declarations made by this year's Lok Sabha hopefuls. Here's a data visualisation - the results might surprise you.
Chaminda Jayanetti and Patrick Ward uncover a bid to fill places by dropping entry requirements.
Essays and comment
Journalist Patrick Ward visits Calais and discovers abysmal conditions. Disgust at the actions of France, it is the British who should perhaps feel most shame.
Two whole weeks after he landed on his feet in unfamiliar territory, Patrick Ward records what it is to be a parachute journalist in the chaos called India. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com It started when I got off the plane and was taken aside and investigated by airport security. That took a while.
A recent Sky News interview with CAGE spokesperson about ‘Jihadi John’s’ radicalisation shows that even the British press isn’t immune from using tired old narratives to continue to justify the West’s ‘War on Terror’.
More videos
James has a novel new invention - but will it work? Film created over five days by a group of Bournemouth University students as part of the International Documentary Challenge.
Travel
Travel writing listicle for the Culture Trip
Travel writing listicle for the Culture Trip
Travel writing listicle for the Culture Trip
Local/Regional UK
Opinion Published: 8:27 AM March 30, 2020 Updated: 7:23 PM November 22, 2020 Panic buying has become common throughout March as we all deal with new coronavirus guidelines. But, Patrick Ward argues, its not the fault of greedy shoppers I'm not usually one for planning.
Opinion Published: 2:53 PM August 19, 2020 Updated: 7:05 PM October 12, 2020 Archant print journalist Patrick Ward asks why the UK isn't doing more to help refugess trying to enter the country It's just over five years now since the world saw the heartbreaking images of little Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old boy from Kurdish-controlled northern Syria, lying face down, lifeless, on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey.