Byline Times Podcast

Adrian Goldberg marks the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with Zarina Zabrisky, a correspondent for the Byline Times in Kyiv and Denys Ghanza, a member of President Zelensky’s Youth Advisory Council. First broadcast via Twitter Spaces @bylineradio Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.   Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Knowsley is the suburb of Merseyside where a recent anti refugee protest turned into a riot outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. Amid violent scenes a police van was set on fire and 15 arrests made. This follows the firebombing last October of a processing centre for migrants in Dover.   Back in 2016, the MP Jo Cox was murdered by Thomas Mair to advance the cause of white supremacism; while in...

In the first of a series of interviews with England's directly elected Mayors, Adrian Goldberg meets Steve Rotherham - Mayor of the Liverpool City Region. They discuss Jeremy Corbyn (for whom Rotherham was a parliamentary aide) as well as levelling up and devolution for the English regions. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hos...

The government has reneged on three promises it made to post-war migrants from the Caribbean - the so-called Windrush generation named after the first boat from the West Indies to arrive in 1948 when the so called 'Mother Country' was desperate for labour.   Many of these hard working people and their decendants fell foul of the government’s “hostile environment." Some were deported from the count...

Families of victims killed in the Northern Ireland conflict are warning that a proposed murder amnesty is being driven by the British state’s desire to cover up its own historical misdemeanours.   The plan to end prosecutions for deaths, torture and other serious crimes related to The Troubles was announced by Boris Johnson in the run up to the 2019 General Election and a Bill is currently being s...

President Putin invaded Ukraine nearly 12 months ago, causing death and destruction to his neighbour, but the Byline Times has been reporting for years about a broader conflict inspired by The Kremlin – an information war designed to undermine democracy.   Adrian Goldberg hears more from Kier Giles, author of Russia’s War On Everybody; Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes, and from Heidi Cuda...

Mould and damp have long been a concern for many social housing tenants, and the death two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale provided incontrovertible evidence (if any were needed) that it could be fatal. The toddler's inquest ruled last November that he died "as a result of a severe respiratory condition caused due to prolonged exposure to mould in his home environment" That set Byline Times’ own...

Prince Harry’s book Spare has sold 1.4 million copies across all formats in the UK, the United States and Canada – so what does it tell us about the UK and our place in the world? And what does it say about monarchy and the media?   Adrian Goldberg is joined by journalist and comedian Ava Vidal, journalist, US based royal commentator RS Locke and media pundit Mic Wright. Originally broadcast via T...

The latest Byline Times podcast explores the crisis in the NHS and the factors which lie behind it.   We’ve got a Health Service which (in England at least) is riven by industrial disputes, involving nurses and ambulance drivers - with action pending by junior doctors.   Ambulance response times are the worst on record; more than half of patients attending A&E departments are waiting four hours or...

Adrian Goldberg gets instant reaction to ITV's 'Harry: The Interview' with US based royal commentator RS Locke, comedian and journalist Ava Vidal and media pundit Mic Wright. This is an edited version of a broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces on 8 January, 2023 - hence the slightly 'lo-fi' quality. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.   Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hoste...

What’s next for Extinction Rebellion? The environmental protest group sent out a press release at the start of the year headlined “We Quit” – which might lead you think that, well, they were giving up.    Not quite…but they are shifting away from the kind mass public disruption that made their name in the first place.   XR came to prominence after blockading major sites in London during 2018 and 2...

In this episode of the Byline Times podcast, Adrian Goldberg discusses Episodes 4-6 (ie Volume Two) of the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary series. Adrian's guests are US-based royal commentator RS Locke and media pundit Mic Wright. This episode was first aired @bylineradio on 18 December 2022. The broadcast was via Twitter Spaces, so the quality might be rather lo-fi in parts. Produced in Bir...

Trump, Truss and Twitter - we review The Year In Politics on both sides of the Atlantic with Byline Times editor Adam Bienkov and Heidi Siegmund from the Radicalized Pod. Hosted by Adrian Goldberg. 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.f...

In this episode of the Byline Times podcast, Adrian Goldberg discusses Episodes 1-3 (ie Volume One) of the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary series. Adrian's guests are comedian and journalist Ava Vidal; US-based royal commentator RS Locke; and media pundit Mic Wright. This episode was first aired @bylineradio on 14 December 2022. The recording was via Twitter Spaces, so the quality might be ra...

Zarina Zabrisky reports on Christmas in Ukraine after a tumultuous year of resistance to Putin's aggression. Hosted 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

is it time to tune out of Spotify?   Spotify is regarded as indispensable to many musicians with emerging artists often regarding it as valuable source of exposure - but it’s also been accused of being tightfisted when it comes to awarding royalties.   Last year it paid out more than $7bn US – around £5.7 bn – with more than 1,000 artists earning in excess of $1million each.   Sounds impressive do...

Adrian Goldberg reviews The Week In Politics with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and Andrew Gimson, contributing editor to Conservative Home and author of Boris Johnson, The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10. 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 abou...

Members of the RMT union have brought trains to a virtual standstill in many parts of the UK, but even without that few people would deny that the network is in a mess, with frequent delays and cancellations. Despite that, a poorly performing rail operator like Avanti West Coast could afford to pay shareholders £11.5m dividends according to their last accounts.   Adrian Goldberg hears from Tom Hai...

What exactly is Elon Musk up to with Twitter?   Since buying the social media platform for $44billion dollars in October, the US billionaire has given an amnesty to users who’d previously been banned; he’s overseen the departure of thousands of staff; he’s dissolved the Trust and Safety Council; and he’s abandoned Twitter’s Covid disinformation policy. He tweeted that "the bird has been freed" but...

This time Harry, Meghan, The Monarchy and the Media …like every other commentator at the point at which this podcast is being recorded we haven’t actually seen the Netflix series about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle but we have witnessed the ferocious howls of outrage from the tabloids who the Duke and Duchess of Sussex clearly have in their sights.   Adrian Goldberg gets reaction from US-based fr...

Zarina Zabrisky reports from Mykloaiv on Vladimir Putin's 'Kholodomor' - the Russian President’s attempt to freeze Ukraine into submission. Hosted by Adrian Goldberg. Based on a report at bylinesupplement.com   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...

Shamima Begum – the so called Isis bride who quit her home in East London to join the Islamic State group at the age of 15 - is appealing at a Special Immigration Appeals tribunal against the decision to deprive her of British citizenship in 2019 by the then Home Secretary Savjid Javid.   In the meantime, the 23-year old is living in a refugee camp in northern Syria. MI5 and the Home Office believ...

This time we’re delving deep into a brilliant Byline Times exclusive revealing that a businessman with ties to Roman Abramovich and two other sanctioned Russian oligarchs had close contact with senior MP’s and peers in the Houses of Parliament.   Sergey Bratukhin, known in the West as Sergey Young, was one of the founding members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Longevity, chaired by Conser...

Adrian Goldberg discusses disturbing new figures uncovered by Byline Times which reveal that more than 1,000 people a year are being raped or sexually assaulted on NHS premises …this can include wards, other patient areas, staff room, car parks etc. We hear from Byline Times Chief Social Affairs Reporter Sian Norris, who broke the story, and Daisy Cooper MP, the Liberal Democrat Health spokesperso...

Adrian Goldberg hears from Dr Ying Miao, a senior lecturer in politics at Aston University, about the underlying reasons for China's recent protests. 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