Byline Times Podcast

Adrian Goldberg debates the Prime Minister's future with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Recorded on Substack. Produced by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg and Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu reflect on the importance of human connection in the age of apps, AI and remote working.   Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Byline Times Investigations Editor Nafeez Ahmed tells Adrian Goldberg why the Iran War isn't a re-run of the 1970s oil crisis, but rather a harbinger of energy crises to come - precipitating a collapse in society, unless bold decisions are taken now. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses Viktor Orban's electoral defeat in Hungary and what it means for Trumpists and populists around the globe, with Dr Georgios Samaras, an expert on European politics at the School for Government and the Policy Institute in London. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Alex Hall Hall - former UK ambassador to Georgia and a British diplomat in Washington DC - about the Iran War ceasefire. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the rise of the populist right with Labour MP Liam Byrne and David Edgar. Liam served in the Blair and Brown government’s and is now Chair of the Commons Business and Trade Select Committee, has just published his book ‘Why Populists Are Winning: and How to Beat Them’. David's “Little Black Book of the Populist Right: What it is, why it's on the march and how to stop it”...

The UK government has temporarily blocked political donations by cryptocurrency and capped donations by UK citizens living overseas at £100,000 following recommendations by senior civil servant Philip Rycroft. Rycroft was commissioned to carry out an independent report after Reform UK MP Nathan Gill was convicted of accepting bribes to promote Russian interests. Adrian Goldberg analyses the world...

Adrian Goldberg discusses the giovernment's 40% cut in overseas aid with Green Party MP Ellie Chowns and Gideon Rabinowitz, Director of Policy and Advocacy at BOND, a UK-based network for international development NGOs . Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu and Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes about Donald Trump's war in Iran; they examine the chaos, confusion and the cost. Plus - the Byline Times seventh anniversary and Paul Conroy RIP. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former West Midlands Mayor Andy Street is proposing an alternative to the populist drift of Conservatism. Along with ex Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, he has launched Prosper a campaign group aimed at the UK's politically homeless centre and centre-right voters. Andy tells Adrian Goldberg why the Conservatives need to shift to the middle ground. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and H...

Adrian Goldberg discusses the so-called 'special relationship' between the UK and US with Scott Lucas, professor of US and international politics at UCD Clinton in Dublin and founder of EA World. Would it be more accurate, they wonder, to call it a 'coercive relationship'. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nafeez Ahmed explains how a 30 year-old plan to redraw the Middle East drawn up by US NeoCons is now playing out in Iran. Adrian Goldberg asks the questions. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham, UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the war on Iran waged by the USA and Israel with Scott Lucas, professor of US and international politics at UCD Clinton in Dublin and editor of the EA World View. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Green Party pulled off a stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, deposing Labour who trailed in third place, with Reform UK 2nd. Adrian Goldberg discusses the result with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Zarina Zabrisky, who has covered Russia’s war in Ukraine from Odessa, Kiev and the frontline in Kherson, where she identified the ‘human safari’ drone warfare on civilians being waged by Putin’s troops. Sergiy Kashylov, a Ukrainian exiled in the UK also joins the conversation. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Adrian Goldberg talks to award winning author Daniel Rachel about his book 'This Ain' Rock n Roll - Pop Music, The Swastika and the Third Reich." Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the Epstein Files with Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and executive editor Peter Jukes to mark the latest print edition of the the paper. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the High Court's judgement that proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group is "unlawful" and disproportionate. Membership or support for PA nevertheless remains illegal pending the outcome of an appeal by the Home Secretary. Produced in Birmingham UK, by Adrian Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a story reflective of our times, Steve Scherer lost his job as International Bureau Chief with Reuters News Agency in Ottawa and has been forced to take a job as an Uber driver to make ends meet. As Steve tells Adrian Goldberg, the experience has made him more appreciative of migrants in the US, who rely on his services to get them to work. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey W...

Adrian Goldberg hears from Lord Steve McCabe, who was inside Sir Keir Starmer's crucial Parliamentary Labour Party meeting, where he saved his skin as PM. They are joined by Sebastian Salek, a Labour councillor fo Waltham Forest. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberd surveys the fallout of the Mandelson/Epstein affair with Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes and political editor Adam Bienkov. This is an edited version of a live broadcast on the Byline Supplement Substack. Produced in Birmingham UK, by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Phil Burton-Cartledge, a political author and academic who is representative of what appears to be a rising trend - Your Party members who have quit to join the Greens. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our latest Westminster review, Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov tells Adrian Goldberg that Sir Keir Starmer has blundered by failing to bring Great Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham into his inner circle. PLUS debate on Reform UK's succession of former Tory MPs and new recruits and a challenge to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch from the left of her party, with the creation of the pressu...

As the reverberations continue in Minneapolis, following Alex Pretti's death at the hands of ICE agents, Adrian Goldberg hears from Jacob Thomas, a resident of the city, and a US Army veteran who now acts as Communications Director for pro-democracy group Common Defense. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota with Naveed Shah, a US Army veteran who served in the Iraq war and is Political Director at Common Defense, a veteran-led grassroots movement dedicated to protecting democracy and combating authoritarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices