Byline Podcast

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