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After five more people died in the Channel attempting to cross to the UK – one of them a seven year old girl – Adrian Goldberg asks if the government’s Rwanda scheme is a humane response, and whether it will be effective.
Rishi Sunak made it an article of faith to push the Rwanda Bill through parliament despite previous objections by the European Court of Human Rights .
Migrants who arrive in the UK by boat will hencefort...
Two MP's, Angela Rayner and Mark Menzies are embroiled in what the tabloids like to call a 'scandal'. Both deny any wrong doing.
But what unites these stories - and what divides them?
Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and John McTernan, Tony Blair’s director of political operations at Downing Street between 2005 and 2007.
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.
Adrian Goldberg investigates Imprisonment for Public Protection jail sentences and the licensing conditions that are attached to them.
He's join by Ishuba Salmon, who was spent 17 years in jail on IPP sentences; Emma McClure from SL5 legal who represented Matthew Price; and Donna Mooney from campaign group UngrIPP.
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"How Brexit Wrecked The Stock Market" is the startling title of new blog by Simon Nixon, one time chief leader writer for the Times and former chief European commentator on the Wall Street journal.
His Substack "The Wealth of Nations" is a must read for anyone interested in the workings of the UK economy.
Simon is not kneejerk 'Remoaner'. He has recently been critical of the workings of the EU single market, for example, ...
Amalfi Midco - parent company of the UK’s largest children's care Home provider Care Tech – has published annual accounts showing that it charged local authorities £575 million but spent £136 million of that on what it describes as ‘financial expenses’.
This means at more than £1 in every £5 provided by Councils for looked after youngsters goes to servicing debts, and other finance charges.
Adrian Goldberh talks to M...
Former "Observer" Editor in Chief Will Hutton talks to Adrian Goldberg about his new book "This Time No Mistakes - How To Remake Britain" (Bloomsbury) which calls for an alliance on the progressive left.
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.
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Adrian Goldberg hears from UK-based Jews saying “not in my name” in reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza. This time – the Jews saying “not in my name” in reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza.
Emily Hilton is the UK Director of Diapora Alliance and co founder of Na'aamod: British Jews Against Occupation. Uri Agnon is an Israeli theatre maker and activist, originally from Jerusalem, now living in London.
Produced in Birmin...
New official figures have revealed record sewage spills in in England’s rivers and seas…3.6 million hours of waste dumped in 2023 compared to 1.75 million hours the year before.
Sewage works are sometimes overloaded during heavy downpours meaning waste sometimes legally flows out untreated but these occasions should be kept to a minimum.
This all begs questions about the regulation our privatised water companies who paid ...
New UK government figures have revealed the sharpest increase in absolute poverty in the UK for more than 30 years.
According to official statistics, 600,000 extra people came into this category last year. Rising energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are partly to blame, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.
According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation the trend has been getting worse for decades. Their mos...
Adrian Goldberg explores the wider meaning of 'tragedy chanting' aimed at supporters of Liverpool FC. He's joined by writer Tony Evans, who survived the the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989.
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The apartment where Byline Times correspondent Zarina Zabrisky and war photographer Paul Conroy are living in Kherson has come under attack from Russian rockets.
Adrian Goldberg gets their responses to a lucky miss.
There's also an update on Odessa from Zarina while Paul assesses the state of international backing for Ukraine.
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Adrian Goldberg interviews Grace Blakeley about her new book 'Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom". (Bloomsbury)
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Steve Bannon – former Chief strategist to Donald Trump - recently shared a platform with Liz Truss in which he called Tommy Robinson a 'hero'. Truss appeared to agree.
This was at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland and in an article you can read now at Byline Times.com Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes has sounded a warning about the emergence of a darker, dangerous form of right wing conservatism...
New findings from a team at Oxford University suggest that privatisation bad for your health.
Researchers looked at 13 long-term studies from well-off countries including the UK to examine what happened ‘before’ and ‘after’ public health provision was outsourced.
Their conclusion: Increases in privatisation generally corresponded with worse quality of care.
Adrian Goldberg talks to one of the r...
Has Islamophobia been mainstreamed? It certainly looks like it.
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Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.
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