BYLINE TIMES PODCAST

Adrian Goldberg discusses President Trump's sanctions on Russia with Dr Svitlana Romanko, Ukrainian Exec. Director and Founder of Razom We Stand - and hears from Zarina Zabrisky on the front line of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kherson. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Harvard University Professor Serhii Plokhy about his new book, 'The Nuclear Age'. They talk about Vladimir Putin's weaponisation of nuclear power plants and discuss the realities of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses 'Nigel Farage's Putin Problem' - the headline story in the new Byline Times newspaper. He's joined by Byline Times executive editor Hardeep Matharu and executive editor Peter Jukes. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Film maker Josh Appignanesi takes us inside the COP Climate Summit in conversation with Adrian Goldberg. Josh's new film, "Colossal Wreck' about his participation in Cop 29 in Dubai last year, is being premiered at the Curzon, Soho in London on October 22, at 6.30pm. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham, UK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former UK ambassador Alex Hall Hall assesses the prospects for Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan. Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Adrian Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 of the 700,000 potential members who have so far expressed an interest in the party. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Byrne-Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Festival at Keele University. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Sean Byrne-Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 all forms of migration even when new arrivals come to the country by regular means, according to a new study by Warwick University.   Adrian Goldberg hears from one of the researchers, Dr Apurav Bhatiya, an economics lecturer from Birmingham University, independent migration expert Zoe Gardner. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Observer that he regrets previously suggesting that Britain was at risk of becoming "an island of strangers" because of migration… a speech carrying echoes of Enoch Powell and which provides the theme for this month's print edition of Byline Times.   In a conversation on the Byline Supplement to mark its launch, Byline times executive editor Peter Jukes was joined by editor in chief Hardeep Matharu and political edtor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 wrong for the Democrats.  Sam has co-written a report for the Institute of Public Policy Research called "It's The Cost Of Living, Stupid", riffing on Bill Clinton's former mantra, and it comes as Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government sets out a long term industrial strategy for the UK.    Produced in Birmingham UK, by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses Donald Trump's attack on Iran with Professor Scott Lucas – from the UCD Clinton Institute in Dublin and Peter Jukes, Byline Times executive editor. This episode was produced by Adrian Goldberg has been edited from a live broadcast at bylinesupplement.com on Sunday, 22 June, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Hunter Dunn from the US-based 50501 anti-Trump protest movement - and one of the co-ordinators of the No Kings demonstrations across the States. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Adrian Lovett, the UK Executive Director of the ONE campaign which is preparing legal action against the UK government because of cuts to the international development budget. Lovett says that Sir Keir Starmer is responsible for the largest cut in aid since the 1970s - and it will cost an estinated 600,000 lives. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg reflects on developments on drone warfare in Ukraine with Byline Times correspondent Zarina Zabrisky. Zarina first reported on Russia's 'human safari' attacks on civilians in Juky 2024; these have now been identified as war crimes and crimes against humanity by the UN and Human Rights Watch. Ukraine has also executed an audacious drone attack on Russian airfields, dubbed 'Operation Spider's Web'. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Ellie Chowns, MP for North Herefordshire and a candidate for the Green Party leadership, in partnership with Adrian Ramsay, and in opposition to Zack Polanski. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poland has swung to the right with the election of Karol Nawrocki as President. Nawroscki is a huge fan of Donald Trump and even flew to the White House during the election to get a thumbs up from his hero in the Oval Office.   He represents the conservative Law and Justice Party which lost power in the parliamentary elections 18 months ago to Donald Tusk's more liberal Civic Platform. Tusk was previously president of the European Council, and had pledged to remove political influence from the judiciary and liberalise Poland's strict abortion laws.   Now though, he could find his legislation vetoed by Nawrocki, who also opposes EU policies on climate change and migration.   Adrian Goldberg is joined by Bartosz Rydlinski, a political scientist based in Warsaw, and Anna Alboth, a Polish journalist currently living in Berlin. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Mic Wright, Byline Times columnist and author of “Breaking – How The Media Works, When It Doesn't And Why It Matters.” Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg asks whether the UK government should stop arming Israel in view of the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid in Gaza, and the continued bombing of the Palestinian people. His guest is Hannah Weisfeld, Executive Director and founder of Yachad, a British Jewish organisation whose primary mission is to empower British Jews to support a political resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg reviews Sir Keir Starmer's EU re-set deal with Mike Buckley, Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations and the Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Was Keir Starmer's speech unveiling new measures reduce immigration his 'Enoch Powell' moment?   Most people would acknowledge that it's not intrinsically racist to discuss the scale of migration to the UK and have measures in place to regulate it. But as the Prime Minister laid out his plans in Downing Street this week, the language around it was horrifying to some Labour supporters.   At the same time as saying that he celebrated diversity, Starmer said that UK risks, “becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together”. As backbench MP Zarah Sultana pointed out, this echoed the infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech made by Enoch Powell in 1968.   Sultana – currently suspended from the Labour whip - said that Starmer's words “add to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk." Adrian Goldberg is joined in conversation by Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. This is the edited version of a live broadcast on BylineSupplement.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg explores Donald Trump's tariff deal with the UK in the company of Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes, and Peter Geoghan from Democracy For Sale. Originally broadcast on Bylinesupplement.com Produced in Birmingham by Adrian. Goldberg.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What lies behind the success of Reform UK in the local council elections in England and their parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby. Adrian Goldberg is joined in discussion by Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes. Produced by Adrian Goldberg ahd Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Backbench Labour MP Clive Lewis talks to Adrian Goldberg about Labour leader Keir Starmer's negotiating stance with to Donald Trump over NATO and tariffs, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair's intervention on Net Zero. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode marks the release of a new print edition of the Byline Times, called 'The Simmer of Discontent' which examines how and the fuel for last year's riots is still simmering. Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu and co-founder Peter Jukes are joined in conversation with veteran political commentator Peter Oborne, once of the Daily Mail and The Telegraph who draws parallels between the turbulent times we're living through and the 1920s. There's also a no-holds barred discussion about the state of British journalism. Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Hunter Dunn, National Press Co-Ordinator with 50501 – the grassroots US resistance movement to Donald Trump.   It started with a thread on the social media site Reddit, and has already spawned significant protests.   An estimated 5 million people turned out to demonstrate in towns and cities across the States on April 5 under the 50501 banner; millions more showed up on Easter Saturday, the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, key moments in the American revolution.   One feature of the protests is that activists are mobilising around issues that are relevant to their local area…as well as opposing the Trump administration's flagrant disregard for the constitutional norms of the USA.   The name 50501 stands for 50 states 50 protests 1 movement One feature of the protests is that activists are mobilising around issues that are relevant to their local area…as well as the Trump administration's flagrant disregard for the constitutional norms of the USA.   Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the Kilmer Abrego-Garcia case with David Greenwald, founder of the US-based Vanguard News Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reflections on how Donald Trump's tariffs have destabilised the world economic and geopolitical order with host Adrian Goldberg, former UK diplomat Alex Hall Hall and economic commentator Simon Nixon. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the UK's response to Trump's tariffs on the British car making industry, and Sir Keir Starmer's weakening of the ZEV Mandate, designed to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses President Trump's imposition of tariffs on America's trading partners. With Scott Lucas, a professor of US international politics at UCD Clinton in Dublin, and Jen Hassum, executive director of the Broadbent Institute. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears why Donald Trump represents a threat to democracy, with Jay Rosen, a Professor of Journalism at New York University. This episode is an edited version of an interview which first appeared on the Byline Podcast in July 2024. It is, as it were, a warning from history. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices