Byline Podcast

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