Byline Podcast
Adrian Goldberg explores the latest political stories from Westminster and the world.
Episodes
July 5, 2025 • 27 mins
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
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July 2, 2025 • 25 mins
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 n...
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June 28, 2025 • 42 mins
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 previ...
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June 27, 2025 • 34 mins
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 ha...
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June 23, 2025 • 45 mins
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.
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June 18, 2025 • 28 mins
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.
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June 14, 2025 • 30 mins
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.
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June 10, 2025 • 25 mins
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 i...
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June 6, 2025 • 30 mins
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.
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June 3, 2025 • 27 mins
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 Europ...
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May 29, 2025 • 30 mins
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.”
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May 24, 2025 • 23 mins
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
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May 21, 2025 • 29 mins
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.
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May 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Adrian Goldberg interviews Green Party leadership contender Zack Polanski.
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.
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May 13, 2025 • 29 mins
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 celeb...
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May 9, 2025 • 40 mins
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.
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May 5, 2025 • 37 mins
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.
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April 30, 2025 • 27 mins
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.
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April 27, 2025 • 48 mins
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 ...
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April 23, 2025 • 31 mins
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 annivers...
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