Adrian Goldberg's Talk Show

This week we examine The Long Shadow of Empire in the company of Sathnam Sanghera (author of Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain) Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and Professor Kehinde Andrews (author of The New Age Of Empire). Plus Fire And Rehire - the erosion of workers' rights during the pandemic with Claire Breeze from Unison, and Tim Sharp from the TUC. Funded by subscri...

This week we examine The Long Shadow of Empire in the company of Sathnam Sanghera (author of Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain) Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and Professor Kehinde Andrews (author of The New Age Of Empire). Plus Fire And Rehire - the erosion of workers' rights during the pandemic with Claire Breeze from Unison, and Tim Sharp from the TUC. Funded by subscri...

Profit making firms, aided by the government, have seized the opportunity given them by Coronavirus to create a "privatised pandemic" in which billions of pounds have been spent on outsourcing. But to what effect? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times Investigations Editor Sam Bright, Mary Fitzgerald from Open Democracy, and Pascale Robinson from We Own It. For Open Democracy's legal crowd funder,...

Profit making firms, aided by the government, have seized the opportunity given them by Coronavirus to create a "privatised pandemic" in which billions of pounds have been spent on outsourcing. But to what effect? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times Investigations Editor Sam Bright, Mary Fitzgerald from Open Democracy, and Pascale Robinson from We Own It. For Open Democracy's legal crowd funder,...

Michelle Gray, sister of Celtic Boys Club victim/survivor Andrew Gray gives her response to the SFA's Independent Review into Child Sexual Abuse in Scotland. She explains why it has left the family feeling "devastated and abandoned".

A epic edition in which presenter Adrian Goldberg takes us through the UK government's War On The "Woke". It's a story which encompasses Free Speech Champions on campus, a row over the National Trust and Britain's colonial legacy, and the media narrative surrounding child sexual abuse and Muslim "grooming gangs". Our distinguished cast list includes Bylines Times reporter Nafeez Ahmed, Bylines Tim...

Veteran political journalist Peter Oborne joins Adrian Goldberg to talk about his new book, The Assault On Truth, in which he tackles head on Boris Johnson, the "Pinocchio PM". Plus Byline Times co-founder Peter Jukes and investigative reporter discuss Rupert Murdoch's meetings with the PM and senior ministers, even though what they discussed hasn't be shared with the public. Your subscription to...

Nazir Afzal, the tenacious Crown prosecutor credited with bringing Rochdale's child grooming gangs to justice, shares the story of his Coronavirus crowdfunding campaign exclusively with the Byline Times podcast. He wants to hold ministers to account for their failures during the pandemic. PLUS The War on Democracy - is the government blocking legitimate journalistic enquiry? With Mary Fitzgerald w...

As the roll out of the Coronavirus vaccination programme gathers pace, campaigners are calling for all people with a Learning Disability to be given priority for the jab. Figures show that people with LD are six times more likely to die from Covid 19 than the general population. We hear from Ciara Lawrence and Harry Roache who both have mild Learning Disabilities, Byline Times writer Saba Salman,...

Boris Johnson's Brexit withdrawal deal was heralded by the PM as "a present to the nation" but for many it's an unwanted gift - including some of those who were keen to leave the EU, including the Scottish Fishing Federation and Who Roger Daltrey, who have discovered that instead of leaving behind that infamous Brussels "red tape" we are now being wrapped up in more of it than ever. Byline Times w...

Donald Trump has become the first US President to be impeached for a second time but Byline Times global correspondent CJ Werleman believes he'll be remembered for something else - inciting a new American civil war. CJ correctly predicted that Donald Trump would try to "steal" the US election and in this wide ranging interview - which also encompasses the Q Anon conspiracy theory - he makes a chil...

Despite the scale of the Coronavirus pandemic, Covid "deniers" and "lockdown sceptics" enjoy significant access to the airwaves in newspapers, on TV and radio, and on social media. Professor David Oliver, a hospital doctor for 30 years argues that these critics are :"gaslighting" members of the medical profession, who witness the terrible impact of the virus on a daily basis. He's no government mo...

Byline Times podcast editor Adrian Goldberg makes a personal selection of highlights from 2020. Produced and presented in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Subscribe here to the Byline Times.

Byline Times writer and FSB disinformation expert Zarina Zabrisky responds to the Russia Report, released by MP's on the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee. The report accused the Westminster government of underestimating the threat of Kremlin-inspired interference in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 and the EU referendum in 2016. Zarina explains the origins of Vladimir Putin's "...

Sweden's laissez fair response to the Coronavirus crisis has won plaudits from populists in the US and UK, but it's death rate from the pandemic is four times greater than in neighbouring Denmark, Norway and Finland combined. In this episode Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times writer Kelly Bjorkland about her investigation into the guidelines that recommended palliative end of life care rather t...

Are Britain's universities doing enough to help disadvantaged students get a top class degree? Not according to Dr Suriyah Bi, who argues that Covid 19 has added further obstacles to the goal of securing wider access to higher education. Dr Bi, who grew up in inner city Birmingham draws on her own personal experience as well as research carried out for the Equality Act Review. She is joined by rec...

Adrian meets David Gleave, co author (with Bill Hern) of Football's Black Pioneers.

How far was Brexit powered by Britain's yearning for an Imperial past that can never return? And how useful to the populists who promoted it is imagery like the opening credits of Dad's Army, which shows plucky old Blighty being pushed back to the Kent coastline by the advancing German army? Adrian Goldberg hears from Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and two of the paper's writers, Otto English...

"I'm not a businessman who does the environment; I'm an environmentalist who does business" - the words of Dale Vince, boss of the word's first green energy company Ecotricity who previously spent a decade as a New Age Traveller, and now owns a football club. Along with legendary music journalist John Robb, he has written "Manifesto", an autobiography which also offers a way forward for the planet...

NHS staff who wanted to blow the whistle on poor practice among their colleagues were promised a new deal in 2015 when Sir Robert Francis recommended the creation of the National Guardians Office, which encouraged the "freedom to speak up." This followed scandals at Stafford Hospital and Gosport War Memorial Hospital where concerns raised by workers were ignored - with deadly consequences. Despite...

There've been lurid campaigns linking abortion in the UK with Satanism, part of a Europe-wide trend which has seen far right groups and the religious right attempt to commandeer debate around about a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body. Byline Times writer Sian Norris steers us through these murky waters, and helps identify some of the "dark money" funding these campaigns. Plus By...

Adrian meets Geoff Thompson and Debbie Anzalone, writer and director respectively of Three Sacks Full Of Hats, a short movie with a powerful message about love, loss, regret - and alcohol. The film stars Alison Steadman and Warren Brown. You can watch it here omeleto.com/254587/

The saying goes that "it's not what you know but who you know". That certainly seems to have been the case when Boris Johnson's government was handing out contracts for Personal Protective Equipment at the start of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Sam Bright has been saying as much in his journalism for Byline Times for months - now that view has been corroborated by The National Audit Office. Sam discus...

Former BBC and RTE TV executive Helen O'Rahilly shares the story behind her first book, The Stairlift Ascends, which gathers quotes from her 90-year old aunt with whom she's been sharing a Covid cocoon. https://www.obrien.ie/the-stairlift-ascends

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talks exclusively to the Byline Times podcast about his petition for a Royal Commission into media ownership in Australia - which has attracted a record breaking 500,000 signatures to the parliamentary website. Mr Rudd is particularly concerned about the influence of Rupert Murdoch who controls 70% of the newspaper readership Down Under, but his observat...