Did Austerity cause the Manchester Arena Attack in 2017, in which 22 people died? No, of course not. That responsibility rests with the bomber Salman Abedi, who also lost his life in the atrocity. But did Auserity weaken the ability of the police in Greater Manchester (and other major urban areas) to respond to terrorism? The Chair of the Inquiry into the bombing, Sir John Saunders says in his Report , "the cuts did have a significant impact on the ability of GMP [Greater Manchester Police] to p...
Nov 07, 2022•26 min
In the spotlight this week - the Cop 27 Climate Conference, the “migrant crisis", Matt Hancock’s appearance on I’m A Celebrity and the ongoing impasse in the Northern Ireland Executive. Adrian Goldberg hears from Stephen Farry, previously a Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive and now MP for North Down, plus the Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov… Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Nov 05, 2022•33 min
The Secretary-General of the UN Antionio Guterres has said the COP 27 Conference must deliver a “down-payment” on climate solutions that match the scale of the problem of global warming. Ahead of the Conference, UNESCO has warned that around a third of the glaciers at its World Heritage Sites are expected to disappear in the next three decades including the ice cap at Mt Kilimanjaro. Adrian Goldberg hears from Amelia Womack, former deputy leader of the Green Party. and Dr Ella Gilbert from the B...
Nov 04, 2022•23 min
We have a Home Secretary in Suella Braverman who describes people who are mostly fleeing war, persecution, hunger and torture as an “invasion”; dangerous overcrowding at the Manston Processing Centre in Kent: and a backlog of 100,000 asylum cases. So what's wrong with the UK's asylum system? Adrian Goldberg hears from Sile Reynolds, Head of Asylum Advocacy at Freedom From Torture, and Amreen Qureshi, a research fellow with a focus on migration at the IPR think tank. Produced in Birmingham by Adr...
Nov 03, 2022•29 min
In the week that Rishi Sunak became PM, we assess what his new Cabinet tells us about the direction of his government; plus his decision to shun the Cop 27 climate summit in Egypt; and the ongoing stalemate in Northern Ireland’s Assembly at Stormont. Host Adrian Goldberg is by Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and investigations editor Sam Bright. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Oct 28, 2022•33 min
Adrian Goldberg hears a dismayed reaction to the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse - or IICSA. The Inquiry was commissioned by Theresa May in 2014 after the Jimmy Saville scandal and was designed to investigate the systemic failures that allow abuse to happen and then be covered up - especially in institutions such as schools, the NHS and the BBC. One if its key recommendations is for a law on Mandatory Reporting of abuse but Tom Perry from Mandate Now – who has bee...
Oct 26, 2022•22 min
We all remember what a breakthrough it represented when an African American became US president – so why isn't Richie Sunaks's elevation to Prime Minister being greeted with similar enthusiasm? He is, after all, a Hindu whose parents came from East Africa, and he's of Punjabi Indian descent. For members of his own community, this IS a comparable milestone. Sanjay Chandarana, President of the Southampton temple founded by Sunak’s grandfather said: “It’s like for the UK, it’s the Barack Obama mome...
Oct 25, 2022•32 min
What a week it’s been with the resignation of Liz Truss, the mooted return of Boris Johnson to frontline politics and the Third Reading of the Public Order Bill. Adrian Goldberg gets reaction from Labour MP Jess Phillips, the Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, along with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about y...
Oct 21, 2022•30 min
What next for the Conservative Party party and more importantly the country after Liz Truss's resignation as PM? There are strong indications tonight that Boris Johnson wants to make a comeback just 6 weeks after leaving office in shame – though under new rules drawn up by the Conservative 1922 Committee, he’ll need to win the support of at least 100 Tory MPs to enter the race. What is this all doing for the UK’s reputation abroad. Adrian Goldberg hears from Byline Times Executive Editor and co ...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 11 min
That Liz Truss resignation - as it happened on Byline Radio. Adrian Goldberg takes the news from Downing Street, then reaction from Byline Times Executive Editor Peter Jukes, Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Chief European and Social Affairs Reporter Sian Norris. Plus callers to @bylineradio Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. First broadcast via Twitter Spaces @bylineradio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Oct 20, 2022•56 min
With new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt talking of deep spending cuts, what impact will that have on on a society where many people are still reeling from the impact of the first wave of Austerity unleashed by David Cameron and George Osborne in 2010? Adrian Goldberg hears from Byline Times Chief European and Social Affairs reporter Norris. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about you...
Oct 19, 2022•28 min
Are the Conservatives drinking in "last Chancellor saloon" after replacing Kwasi Karteng with Jeremy Hunt? Adrian Goldberg takes soundings on a momentous week in politics from long serving Labour backbencher Steve McCabe and Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. 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
Oct 14, 2022•26 min
All the latest from Heidi Siegmund Cuda the January 6th Hearings in Washington DC – which has sensationally voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump – this means he will be legally compelled to give evidence. Hosted by Adrian Goldberg. Hear more from Heidi at Radicalized Pod. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Originally broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ...
Oct 14, 2022•32 min
How did the UK’s financial crisis begin? How can do to solve it? And what does it mean for Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Karteng? Adrian Goldberg hears from Danisha Kazi, senior economist at Positive Money and Sam Bright, from Byline Times and author of Fortress London – Why We Need To Save The Country From Its Capital. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscribers to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad c...
Oct 13, 2022•23 min
After the bombing of the Kerch Bridge which links Russia to Crimea, President Putin has commissioned missile assaults on major Ukrainian cities including the capital Kiev, as well as Zaphorizhia and Lviv. Putin has explicitly linked his latest round of death and destruction with the attack on the bridge, which is both strategically and symbolically important linking, as it does, Russia to a region of Ukraine it annexed in 2014. But where he stop? And how are ordinary Ukrainians facing up to this...
Oct 11, 2022•29 min
Is Liz Truss about to go full Trump by relocating the UK Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? If so, it's a decision which would be loaded with political signifigance. The PM told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid at the UN summit in New York last month that a move was under consideration. The proposal has been condemned both nationally and internationally with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby warning that it could damage peace prospects. Adrian Goldberg hears from former dipl...
Oct 09, 2022•25 min
Adrian Goldberg hears reflections on the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham from Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov, and Sir John Curtice, politics professor at the University of Strathclyde and senior research fellow at both Nat Cen Social Research and The UK in A Changing Europe. Produced by Adrian Goldberg. 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
Oct 07, 2022•34 min
Adrian Goldberg hears from Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about the hedge fund managers who have donated thousands of pounds to the likes of Boris Johnson, other Conservative MPs and the Tory party generally, and questions whether those who stand to personally benefit from what the government does should be in any position to wield influence inside Number 10 or Number 11 Downing Street. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted o...
Oct 05, 2022•26 min
Dozens of people have died in street protests in Iran following the death in police custody of 22 year old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police for allegedly violating the law that requires women to cover their hair with a hijab - or headscaf. Adrian Goldberg hears from Nasrin Parvaz, a women's rights activist forced to flee Iran in 1993 after being imprisoned and tortured so badly that she developed a brain tumour. She’s detailed her experiences in a book called One Woman’s Stru...
Oct 04, 2022•24 min
Adrian Goldberg talks to Zarina Zabrisky in Odessa about Vladmir Putin’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine - and what that means for the war. Russia recently held fake 'referendums' in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson - areas it has seized in the south and east of the country - seeking to justify its invasion. Ukraine has already retaliated on the battlefield winning back the strategically important city of Lyman in the Donetsk region; and there are reports that Kherson is in the proc...
Oct 03, 2022•28 min
What a week it’s been. The Bank of England was forced into a £65bn intervention to head off a pensions crisis triggered by new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s Financial Statement which proposed a 5p in the pound cut in the top rate of income tax, funded by massive borrowing. The markets were spooked, and a round of local radio interviews with Liz Truss to retrieve the situation was generally regarded as being not so much a car crash as a multi vehicle pile up. Meanwhile, off the back of a Party Conf...
Sep 30, 2022•31 min
The UK is in the grip of a full blown financial crisis, with the Bank of England forced to make an emergency intervention because of “material risk to UK financial stability”. This in the aftermath of Kwasi Kwarteng’s Financial Statement which slashed taxes for high earners, and earned an unprecedented rebuke from the Washington-based International Monetary Fund who said that the government’s economic policy would undermine efforts by the Bank to tackle rising inflation. Adrian Goldberg hears fr...
Sep 29, 2022•55 min
Giorgia Meloni is the brink of becoming Italy's first female prime minister - and leader of its most right wing government since the days of Mussolini. Adrian Goldberg hears from David Broder author of “Mussolini’s Grandchildren – Fascism in Contemporary Italy” Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 27, 2022•31 min
As the Labour party gathers for its Annual Conference in Liverpool, Adrian Goldberg hears a warning from Keir Starmer’s former Strategic Campaigns Adviser Simon Fletcher that the party can’t just assume it will win the next election be default. Writing on bylinetimes.com Simon – who also worked for Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband – says that “a strategy based on caution is a big risk". He's joined in conversation with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Gol...
Sep 25, 2022•29 min
Reaction to Kwasi Karteng’s fiscal statement, his first as Chancellor in Liz Truss’s new government. Was it a budget for the rich? Adrian Goldberg hears from Sam Bright from Byline Times and author of Fortress London: Why We Need to Save The Country From Its Capital; plus Jeevun Sandher head of economics at the New Economics Foundation, and NEF, and Dr Jo Michell, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the West of England. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subsc...
Sep 24, 2022•32 min
Adrian Goldberg investigates the government's flagship 'Homes For Ukraine' resettlement scheme, six months after its introduction. 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
Sep 23, 2022•40 min
After an eruption of violence between Hindus and Muslims on the streets of Leicester, how much of the tension and rivalry has been imported from nationalists in India? Adrian Goldberg hears from Shockat Adam who grew up in the area where disturbances happened and is now a community activist with MEND – Muslim Engagement and Development. He believes the fires are being stoked by Hindutva – Hindu nationalism based on the sub continent. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Fu...
Sep 21, 2022•39 min
The place was Youngstown Ohio; the event a Save America Rally; the gesture baffling. As former President Donald Trump listed what he regards as the foreign policy failures of his successor Joe Biden against a background of doomy music and warnings of World War 3 Trump’s supporters raised their right arms in gesture that looked disturbingly like a fascist salute. It wasn’t quite the full Sieg Heil, because those who took part extended their index fingers as well as their arms, but parallels with ...
Sep 20, 2022•41 min
Should the new King Charles pay inheritance tax? The Duchy of Lancaster, which will be passed down to him from his mum, Queen Elizabeth II, is worth an estimated £652m. Normally someone of Charles' wealth would have to pay 40% of that to HMRC, but he’s the beneficiary of an exclusion introduced by then PM John Major in 1993 which makes the monarchy exempt Host Adrian Goldberg hears from two top guests: Stephanie Brobbey, founder and Chief Exec of the Good Ancestor Movement, which supports wealth...
Sep 16, 2022•24 min
Adrian Goldberg hears from Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes about American “dark money” and its links to new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Cabinet. You can read the full article here. Produced 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 15, 2022•28 min
