Adrian Goldberg talks to author and historian James Hawes about the Rise of English Nationalism and what he regards as the inevitable demise of the UK. James' book The Shortest History of England is available now from Old Street Publishing. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 12, 2022•38 min
Adrian Goldberg talks to Chris Thomas of the IPPR and Sian Norris of Byline Times about the long term impact of Austerity on the NHS and Children's Services. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 15, 2021•37 min
A look at the Nationality and Borders Bill with Steve Valdez Symonds from Amnesty, Maddie Harris of the Humans for Rights Network and Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu. Presented by Adrian Goldberg, produced in Birmingham by Adrian and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times newspaper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr
Barrister Michael Mansfield QC tells Adrian Goldberg that Boris Johnson and other senior politicians could be prosecuted for Misconduct In Public Office over their handling of the Coronavirus pandemic. Mr Mansfield was speaking as he launched the Final Report of the People's Covid Inquiry. Adrian also hears from Dr Tony O'Sullivan co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public who commissioned the Inquiry. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times newspaper. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harv...
Dec 01, 2021•35 min
Adrian Goldberg investigates one of the great scandals of our time – the health inequalities that mean a man living in central Blackpool can expect to die 27 years earlier than his counterpart in an affluent district of London... That stark figure – from research by Imperial College in London – showed that, life expectancy for women fell in almost one in five communities in England in the decade before the pandemic…whilst researchers at York University’s Centre For Health Economics found that cu...
Nov 03, 2021•36 min
Facebook is facing tough questions from legislators on both sides of the Atlantic, following the leaking of documents by whistleblowing former employee Frances Haugen - by Kyle Taylor has spent years highlighting why the social media giant is problematic. He's Campaign Director of pressure group The REAL Facebook Oversight Board, and wrote The Little Black Book Of Data And Democracy. Presented by Adrian Goldberg; produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Hosted on Acast. See...
Oct 28, 2021•43 min
Will the UN’s climate change conference in Glasgow – Cop 26 - be a cop out? Prime Ministers and Presidents from around the world will strut their stuff and talk a good game around Net Zero, but what action do we need to really grapple with what is an existential crisis for the millions of people -often in the Global South - who face the prospect of floods, droughts, rising sea levels and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns? Adrian Goldberg meets two radical thinkers; Silvia Pastorelli, i...
Oct 20, 2021•36 min
Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell discusses his relationship with Boris Johnson and the British Establishment after a career spanning the Whips Office, being Secretary of State for International Development - and a crisis that signalled the end of his ministerial career. Andrew also discusses Britain's role in Yemen and the value of a free press. His autobiography Beyond A Fringe - Confessions Of A Former Establishment Lackey is published by BiteBack. Presented by Adrian Goldberg. Produced in Birm...
Oct 06, 2021•43 min
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News was Donald Trump's favoured TV channel - not least because Fox anchors shamelessly fawned over him, both during his time as a Republican candidate, then during his Presidency. But did the line between journalism and propaganda go too far? And what role did Fox have to play in the insurrection of January 6 2021, when a mob attacked the Capitol in Washington D.C. claiming that the election had been stolen? Adrian Goldberg talks to Sarah Ferguson, who recently presented "F...
Sep 22, 2021•49 min
As the UK government is forced to contemplate a fourth Covid lockdown, we return to one of the unresolved issues of the first one in back in March 2020…the question of why so many patients were discharged from hospital and released back into care homes without being tested for the virus? Dr Cathy Gardner, whose father had dementia, died in care during the first Covid wave. She now wants to hold the government to account in court. You can support her crowdfunder here. We also hear from Sir Geoffr...
Sep 15, 2021•35 min
Who are the Conservative party's elite donors? And what do they want? Iain Overton and Sian Norris share their investigation with BITE - the Byline Intelligence Team - at the Byline Times. Presented by Adrian Goldberg. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 08, 2021•36 min
As the world marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 – and the US retreats from Afghanistan which it invaded as a result - we hear from one man caught up in the War In Terror. Moazzam Begg who was held at Guantanamo Bay reflects on the lessons the West needs to learn and shares his story of detention without trial and being tortured. The Byline Times podcast is funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times newspaper and website. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Presented by A...
Sep 01, 2021•47 min
After last week's episode examining why so many environmentalists oppose HS2, this time we hear from Steve Caudwell or Greens For HS2. We're also joined by Lord Tony Berkeley, who believes parliament has been misled over the cost of HS2. Presented by Adrian Goldberg. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 25, 2021•46 min
The HS2 Rail project has the official support of every mainstream political party in England and Wales bar one - The Green Party. It's also inspired a wave of non aligned environmental groups to set up protest camps along the route. That's some going for a scheme touted as part of the solution to meeting the UK government's zero net carbon commitment. So why do so many people who would broadly identify as 'green' stand against a rail network designed to take hundreds of thousands of cars and lor...
Aug 18, 2021•37 min
Adrian Goldberg interviews Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network; Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, in a conversation that encompasses US politics, Brexit and the NHS. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Anne was previously interviewed at Byline Times by Heidi Sigmund Cuda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 11, 2021•38 min
This week, two nations in crisis - Afghanistan and Belarus. Afghanistan is in turmoil following Joe Biden's decision to withdraw troops - we hear from Chris Alexander, a former Canadian Ambassador to the country, who lays the blame for the Talbian's resurgence at the door of neighbouring Pakistan. Plus exiled Belarusian journalist Hannah Liubokova on her country's continued repression at the hands of President Alexander Kukashenko. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Produced in Birming...
Aug 04, 2021•46 min
Boris Johnson's mantra en route to election victory in 2019 was 'getting Brexit done'. But now that we've left the EU, is the UK getting 'done' by Brexit? Adrian Goldberg assembles a cast of hauliers, an expert in food distribution and Byline Times Chief Politics and Investigations Reporter Sam Bright. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 21, 2021•35 min
After an eight year inquiry, the Independent Panel in the death of Daniel Morgan has finally reported - and their conclusion is damning. Panel Chair Baroness Nuala O'Loan concludes that the Metropolitan Police - Britain's most powerful police force - is "institutionally corrupt". Daniel Morgan was the victim of brutal murder in 1987 which remains unsolved. There's more background on the case here and an in depth interview with his brother Alastair Morganwho has led the campaign for justice here....
Jun 17, 2021•49 min
Ahead of Euro 2021 England football manager Gareth Southgate has pledged that his team with continue taking the knee in protest at racism - even though some of his own supporters have booed the gesture. Adrian Goldberg discusses the history and meaning of taking a knee with former West Bromwich Albion player Brendon Batson - one a trio of players at the club who broke through in the late 1970s to challenge racism - and Andrew Spence, producer of the award winning Coming In From The Cold podcast,...
Jun 09, 2021•49 min
Adrian Goldberg interviews journalist Alex Renton, author of "Blood Legacy: Reckoning With A Family's Story Of Slavery", which details his ancestors' history of enslaving people from Africa on sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean. We also hear contributions from Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu; Professor Kehinde Andrews, author of The New Age Of Empire; and Sathnam Sanghera who wrote Empireland. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byl...
Jun 02, 2021•48 min
"On the day" reaction from Byline TV to Dominic Cummings astonishing attack on his former colleagues at two parliamentary hearings. The Prime Minister’s Former Chief Advisor told MP’s that tens of thousands of people had died unnecessarily because of the government’s mishandling of the pandemic and that Boris Johnson was unfit to lead the country. Older people he, said were discharged from hospital into care homes without being tested for Covid allowing the virus to spread. He also said Health S...
May 27, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Alastair Morgan has been fighting for 34 years to get justice for his brother Daniel who was murdered in a South London pub car park in 1987. The latest setback in his quest was the decision by Home Secretary Priti Patel to delay publication of the findings of an Independent Panel into the killing and the subsequent investigations. No one has been convicted in relation to Daniel's death, and the story sounds like a real life Line Of Duty (which actually namechecked the case in its most recent se...
May 26, 2021•31 min
This is a special bonus edition of the podcast – looking at the murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan in 1987, and the extraordinary decision by Home Secretary Priti Patel to delay publication of an independent report about the botched investigation into his death. It’s a story that combines vicious crime, murky politics and media corruption. Byline Times co-founder Peter Jukes made a hugely successful Untold Podcast series about the case and has also written a book about it with Daniel’s...
May 20, 2021•28 min
In the wake of a new surge of violence involving Israelis and Palestinian Arabs, we explore Zionism - the ideology that led to the creation of the state of Israel, and how provides it with ideological sustenance. Podcast host Adrian Goldberg talks to Dov Waxman, author of "The Israeli Palestinian Conflict - What Everyone Needs To Know." Dov is also the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Presented by Adrian Goldberg. P...
May 19, 2021•38 min
In a bonus episode of the Byline Times podcast, Sam Bright from Byline TV interviews the UK's former Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King about the Coronavirus pandemic. Sir David is Chair of Independent SAGE, a group of scientists offering independent dent advice to the government and the public about Covid 19. Watch more from Sam at Byline TV Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. L...
May 17, 2021•36 min
Savage cuts to the UK's Overseas Aid Budget are discussed by former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell MP and Bekky Ashmore from charity Plan International UK. Presented by Adrian Goldberg. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 05, 2021•39 min
This week, podcast host Adrian Goldberg is joined by comedian and best-selling author David Baddiel who discusses his latest book Jews Don't Count - a polemic about the racism that too many people who regard themselves as "progressives" fail to see. Plus Byline Times co founder Peter Jukes on the Mexican Stand Off between Dominic Cummings and Fleet Street newspaper bosses. Presented by Adrian Goldberg Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
Apr 28, 2021•48 min
Another triple header from the Byline Times Podcast. 1). Derek Chauvin's conviction for murdering George Floyd discussed with Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. 2). Man Made Famine in Ethiopia. We hear from Leandra, who was forced to flee Ethiopia for the safety of the UK at the age of 5, about the return of famine to her native country. This time, starvation is a weapon of war being used by the Army against the people of Tigray. Plus human rights campaign...
Apr 21, 2021•49 min
Is the Conservative party drifting from the centre right to the far right of the political spectrum? In this episode we hear from Byline Times writer Sian Norris about the Tory MP's sitting on a group at the Council of Europe alongside parties who, is some cases, flirt with fascism. That's followed by Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Oborne who discuss recent the recent appointment of officials to counter extremism bodies who have both associated with groups and individuals regarded as Islamophobic. We al...
Apr 14, 2021•47 min
Has the BBC lost its "bottle" - or appetite for confrontation - with government? The Corporation's former Baghdad Bureau Chief Patrick Howse thinks so after witnessing their lack of appetite for Jennifer Arcuri's revelations about her four year affair with Boris Johnson when he was London Mayor. Was there a conflict of interest between Johnson's role and Arcuri receiving more than £100,000 of taxpayers cash and attending trade missions with him? He discusses the episode with Byline Times editor ...
Apr 07, 2021•47 min
