Byline Times Podcast

Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes joins Adrian Goldberg to discuss the links between Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and the party's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, who has admitted accepting bribes to speak up for Russia in the European parliament. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Russell Scott, author of 'VIP Lane – Cronysim and the Pandemic', which is out now via Byline Books. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg interviews Dan Wang, the author of ‘Breakneck – China’s Quest to Engineer The Future’, a brilliant study of China’s emergence as a major power. They discuss the implications of this development for the United States and the UK… Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Lowles from Hope Not Hate joins Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov to talk about his new book, "How To Defeat The Far Right". Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from US Congressman Jamie Raskin - a Democrat and constitutional law expert - who recently challenged Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about free speech in a Congress hearing. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Donald Trump is welcomed to the UK - at least by The King, the PM and senior ministers - back home in The States, hundreds of activists are marching from Philadelphia to Washington DC in protest at the slow erosion of the Constitution. Adrian Goldberg hears from two of them, MJ and Steve. Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

Adrian Goldberg explores whether the proscribed organisation Palestine Action are really terrorists - or activists engaged in the great British tradition of non violent direct action. He's joined by RAF veteran Steve Masters, who was arrested at a recent Palestine Action demonstration, and Saeed Taji Farouky from Defend Our Juries who are planning further protests. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Ad...

Adrian Goldberg interviews new Green Party leader Zack Polanski. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham, UK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The former Director of Public Health in North West England, John Ashton, explains why he's giving up his Labour membership after more than six decades. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from British surgeon Dr Nick Maynard who has vowed to return to Gaza, despite an horrific Israeli 'double tap' attack on the hospital where he recently worked. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former UK diplomat Alex Hall Hall shares the story of President Trump's "total assault" on Washington DC, where the National Guard has been sent onto the streets and immigration officials are terrorising diverse neighbourhoods. Alex also tells Adrian Goldberg about wider pattern of authoritarian control from the White House. Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad ch...

Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu about why identity matters in modern Britain. Produced by Harvey White and Sean Byrne Roberts. Recorded at the Byline Festival at Keele University in July 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears how the Silcon Valley tech bros - Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Altman - are skewing the news agenda to theirown advantage. With Kyle Taylor, editor of the Little Black Book Of Press Barons. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should the fledgling and provisionally titled 'Your Party' be controlled by a centralised grouping at the top? Or should it be run by grassroots activists? It's a question which lies at the heart of Alan Story's concerns about the new left wing grouping. Alan, an activist and writer of the Left Lane substack, tells Adrian Goldberg that local organisers like him have been denied access to details o...

Adrian Goldberg to Kate Raworth about the philosophy of 'Doughnut Economics'. Recorded at the Byline Festival at Keele University in Juky 2025 by Sean Byrne-Roberts. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks about the 'Transatlantic Rift' that has opened up between the US and the UK, following Donald Trump's election. His guests are Heidi Siegmund Cuda aka Bette Dangerous and former Times/Wall Street Journal commentator, Simon Nixon, now creator of 'The Wealth Of Nations' substack. Recorded at the Byline Festival. Produced by Adrian Goldberg, Harvey White and Sean Byrne-Roberts....

Adrian Goldberg talks to Rachel Shabi about her book 'Off White - The Truth About Anti Semitism', published by One World books. This episode was recorded at the Byline Festival in July 2025 at Keele University. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Sean Byrne-Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Nazir Afzal, former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England who bought the Rochdale grooming gang to justice. In this shorty but powerful interview, recorded at the Byline Festival at Keele University, Nazir reflects on the role of race, class and gender in creating a society where women routinely face violence. Produced by Adrian Goldberg, Harvey White and Sean By...

Adrian Goldberg talks for former UK intelligence officer Christopher Steele about his 2016 dossier which suggested that Donald Trump's had close links to Russia - and that the Kremlin had 'kompromat' on the man who would become President. They also talk about Trump's links to Jeffrey Epstein - and Russia's attempts to interfere with Brexit and the Scottish Referendum. Recorded at the Byline Festiv...

Adrian Goldberg explores the world of the toxic online masculinity - the "Manosphere" - with James Bloodworth, author of 'Lost Boys'. Recorded at the Byline Festival at Keele University. Produced by Adrian Goldberg, Harvey White and Sean Byrne-Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg interviews Peter Geoghegan from Democracy For Sale at the 2025 Byline Festival, at Keele University. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Sean Byrne-Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former British diplomat Alex Hall explains why she's launched a crowd funder for Abil, her friend in Gaza. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest figures show that more than 19,000 migrants have arrived in the UK from France this year after crossing the channel in makeshift vessels, despite government pledges to destroy smuggling gangs and improve border security.   Cue predictable outrage from the right wing press, GB News, Nigel Farage and so on. But these negative headlines also seem to be turning the British people against al...

Are Sir Keir Starmer’s u-turns the sign of a wea and indecisive leader or evidence of someone willing to change their mind and listen to reasoned arguments? The Prime Minister has backtracked, to a greater or lesser degree, on cuts to winter fuel payments, whether or not to hold a national inquiry into grooming gangs, and now disability benefits.   He’s also told His biographer Tom Baldwin in The...

What lessons should progressive political parties who want to win elections be learning? Adrian Goldberg hears from Sam Alvis a former Labour party advisor, who worked in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow treasury team and with Ed Miliband on energy policy. Sam recently returned from Washington, where he met with Joe Biden’s former White House staff, along with Senators and Representatives to ask what went w...