Byline Times Podcast

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...

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 Canterbu...

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.c...

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.   Produce...

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 bad...

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 strategi...

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...

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 econ...

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 mor...

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...

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...

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

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 na...

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,...

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 gu...

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

Can you respectfully mourn the passing of the Queen whilst still opposing the institution she represented?   These are questions posed by the reaction of the police in different parts of the UK to those who wanted to counter the Royalist narrative being pumped out by most mainstream media. A woman was arrested for holding up an anti monarchist in Edinburgh during the Royal Proclamation; likewise a...

We seem to be at a turning point in Ukraine’s resistance, as Russian troops are forced to flee from dozens of towns and villages outside Kharkiv in the north east of the country – including Kupiansk, an important railway hub and one of Russia’s key supply routes to the east.    There are suggestions that the invading forces were outwitted. Russia redeployed troops to Kherson in the south of the co...

Adrian Goldberg talks to Dr Yuri Felshtinsky who wrote Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within - a book which alleged that a series of apartment block bombings in Russia in 1999 were false flag attacks engineered by the security services. At the time, the bombings – which killed 307 people - were blamed on Islamist terrorists and were used by Vladimir Putin to strengthen his grip on power,   Dr Fels...

Boris Johnson’s was the Prime Minister who promised to get Brexit done, who oversaw the UK’s response to Covid and who promised a levelling up agenda.  He was also forced to stand down in disgrace, laid low by a series of scandals that pointed to his dishonesty and lack of judgement. Otto English - whose best selling book Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped The World included a chapter dedicated to...

This time we return to the subject of Boris Johnson’s attendance at a party in Italy in 2018 at a castle owned by newspaper proprietor Evgeny Lebdev, son of former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev. At the time Johnson was Foreign Secretary, before becoming PM in 2019. Evgeny - who owns The Independent and the Evening Standard - became a life peer in 2020 despite reports of concerns by the security servic...

In the latest episode, we hear a stark warning that escalating energy prices will lead to a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in the UK.   A new report by two leading experts suggests that thousands of lives will be lost and the development of millions of children blighted as a result of fuel poverty, triggered by rising energy prices. The grim prediction comes from Professor Sir Michael Marmot from UCL in Lo...

Adrian Goldberg discusses the tragedy of Pakistan’s floods which have killed more than 1100 people and left a third of the country under water. Un Sec General Antonio Guterres described it as a “monsoon on steroids” as he launched a campaign to raise 160million US dollars to provide help for the those affected. We hear from Asad Rehman, co-founder of the Climate Justice Coalition who has spent yea...

This time it’s the Crosby Show…as we examine the influence of political strategist Sir Lynton Crosby, advisor to David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.   Australian Crosby – sometimes known as the 'Wizard of Oz' - is credited with founding the “dead cat” strategy, which involves creating a diversion if your favoured candidate is coming under intense pressure.   It’s a tactic which has argua...

An episode marking Ukrainian Independence Day, discovering the nation's history and finding out what the future holds following Russia’s invasion.   Adrian Goldberg hears from Denys Ghaza a Ukrainian Youth Delegate to the UN, and Zarina Zabrisky who has been covering the Russian invasion from inside Ukraine for Byline Times and the Euromaidan News Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Fund...