Former British diplomat Alex Hall explains why she's launched a crowd funder for Abil, her friend in Gaza. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The latest figures show that more than 19,000 migrants have arrived in the UK from France this year after crossing the channel in makeshift vessels, despite government pledges to destroy smuggling gangs and improve border security. Cue predictable outrage from the right wing press, GB News, Nigel Farage and so on. But these negative headlines also seem to be turning the British people against all forms of migration even when new arrivals come to the country by regular means, according to a new s...
Are Sir Keir Starmer’s u-turns the sign of a wea and indecisive leader or evidence of someone willing to change their mind and listen to reasoned arguments? The Prime Minister has backtracked, to a greater or lesser degree, on cuts to winter fuel payments, whether or not to hold a national inquiry into grooming gangs, and now disability benefits. He’s also told His biographer Tom Baldwin in The Observer that he regrets previously suggesting that Britain was at risk of becoming "an island of stra...
What lessons should progressive political parties who want to win elections be learning? Adrian Goldberg hears from Sam Alvis a former Labour party advisor, who worked in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow treasury team and with Ed Miliband on energy policy. Sam recently returned from Washington, where he met with Joe Biden’s former White House staff, along with Senators and Representatives to ask what went wrong for the Democrats. Sam has co-written a report for the Institute of Public Policy Research call...
Adrian Goldberg discusses Donald Trump's attack on Iran with Professor Scott Lucas – from the UCD Clinton Institute in Dublin and Peter Jukes, Byline Times executive editor. This episode was produced by Adrian Goldberg has been edited from a live broadcast at bylinesupplement.com on Sunday, 22 June, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg hears from Hunter Dunn from the US-based 50501 anti-Trump protest movement - and one of the co-ordinators of the No Kings demonstrations across the States. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg talks to Adrian Lovett, the UK Executive Director of the ONE campaign which is preparing legal action against the UK government because of cuts to the international development budget. Lovett says that Sir Keir Starmer is responsible for the largest cut in aid since the 1970s - and it will cost an estinated 600,000 lives. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg reflects on developments on drone warfare in Ukraine with Byline Times correspondent Zarina Zabrisky. Zarina first reported on Russia's 'human safari' attacks on civilians in Juky 2024; these have now been identified as war crimes and crimes against humanity by the UN and Human Rights Watch. Ukraine has also executed an audacious drone attack on Russian airfields, dubbed 'Operation Spider's Web'. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad...
Adrian Goldberg talks to Ellie Chowns, MP for North Herefordshire and a candidate for the Green Party leadership, in partnership with Adrian Ramsay, and in opposition to Zack Polanski. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Poland has swung to the right with the election of Karol Nawrocki as President. Nawroscki is a huge fan of Donald Trump and even flew to the White House during the election to get a thumbs up from his hero in the Oval Office. He represents the conservative Law and Justice Party which lost power in the parliamentary elections 18 months ago to Donald Tusk’s more liberal Civic Platform. Tusk was previously president of the European Council, and had pledged to remove political influence from the jud...
Adrian Goldberg talks to Mic Wright, Byline Times columnist and author of “Breaking – How The Media Works, When It Doesn’t And Why It Matters.” Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg asks whether the UK government should stop arming Israel in view of the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid in Gaza, and the continued bombing of the Palestinian people. His guest is Hannah Weisfeld, Executive Director and founder of Yachad, a British Jewish organisation whose primary mission is to empower British Jews to support a political resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
Adrian Goldberg reviews Sir Keir Starmer's EU re-set deal with Mike Buckley, Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations and the Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg interviews Green Party leadership contender Zack Polanski. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Was Keir Starmer’s speech unveiling new measures reduce immigration his 'Enoch Powell' moment? Most people would acknowledge that it’s not intrinsically racist to discuss the scale of migration to the UK and have measures in place to regulate it. But as the Prime Minister laid out his plans in Downing Street this week, the language around it was horrifying to some Labour supporters. At the same time as saying that he celebrated diversity, Starmer said that UK risks, “becoming an island of strang...
Adrian Goldberg explores Donald Trump's tariff deal with the UK in the company of Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes, and Peter Geoghan from Democracy For Sale. Originally broadcast on Bylinesupplement.com Produced in Birmingham by Adrian. Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What lies behind the success of Reform UK in the local council elections in England and their parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby. Adrian Goldberg is joined in discussion by Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes. Produced by Adrian Goldberg ahd Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Backbench Labour MP Clive Lewis talks to Adrian Goldberg about Labour leader Keir Starmer's negotiating stance with to Donald Trump over NATO and tariffs, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair's intervention on Net Zero. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This episode marks the release of a new print edition of the Byline Times, called 'The Simmer of Discontent' which examines how and the fuel for last year’s riots is still simmering. Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and co-founder Peter Jukes are joined in conversation with veteran political commentator Peter Oborne, once of the Daily Mail and The Telegraph who draws parallels between the turbulent times we're living through and the 1920s. There's also a no-holds barred discussion about the s...
Adrian Goldberg hears from Hunter Dunn, National Press Co-Ordinator with 50501 – the grassroots US resistance movement to Donald Trump. It started with a thread on the social media site Reddit, and has already spawned significant protests. An estimated 5 million people turned out to demonstrate in towns and cities across the States on April 5 under the 50501 banner; millions more showed up on Easter Saturday, the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, key moments in the Ameri...
Adrian Goldberg discusses the Kilmer Abrego-Garcia case with David Greenwald, founder of the US-based Vanguard News Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reflections on how Donald Trump's tariffs have destabilised the world economic and geopolitical order with host Adrian Goldberg, former UK diplomat Alex Hall Hall and economic commentator Simon Nixon. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg discusses the UK's response to Trump's tariffs on the British car making industry, and Sir Keir Starmer's weakening of the ZEV Mandate, designed to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg discusses President Trump's imposition of tariffs on America's trading partners. With Scott Lucas, a professor of US international politics at UCD Clinton in Dublin, and Jen Hassum, executive director of the Broadbent Institute. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg hears why Donald Trump represents a threat to democracy, with Jay Rosen, a Professor of Journalism at New York University. This episode is an edited version of an interview which first appeared on the Byline Podcast in July 2024. It is, as it were, a warning from history. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Has Labour declared war on welfare? The party was traditionally seen as a friend of the dispossessed, the downtrodden and the disabled, but Chancellor Rachel Reeves is looking to reduce the benefits bill by almost £5 billion pounds through changes revealed in her spring statement as well as previously announced adjustments to eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment. Official estimates forecast that, as a result, more than 3 million families will lose an average of £1700 a year by 2030 ...
Is the US engaging in its own self destructive version of the UK's decision to quit the European Union, by withdrawing from a central role in global affairs? Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes is joined by the magazine's editor-in-chief Hardeep Matharu and regular contributor Otto English. Introduced by Adrian Goldberg. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg, Harvey White and Phil Driscoll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg discusses the consequences of Saudi-owned Newcastle United's Carabao Cup Final victory with John Hird and Peter Sagar of NUFC Fans Against Sportwashing. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrian Goldberg discusses Labour's proposed welfare cuts with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Tom Pollard, head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation. Tom is a former senior mental health policy advisor to the DWP, and is a part time mental health social worker. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Liverpool was once the UK's primary port of Empire but has now outlived its original purpose and like many post industrial towns in the UK is struggling for a new identity. Adrian Goldberg talks to Sam Wetherell about his new history, 'Liverpool And The Unmaking of Britain' which offers a perspective on the city as a symbol of both obsolescence and regeneration. Sam's book is a kind of love letter, exploring how Merseyside was abandoned by the capital – and by capital - when it was deemed surplu...
