
Byline Podcast
Adrian Goldberg explores the latest political stories from Westminster and the world.
Latest episodes

Apr 17, 2025 • 21min
U.S. Democracy 'Is On Life Support'
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

Apr 13, 2025 • 29min
War Minus The Shooting: How Trump's Tariffs Have Destabilised The World
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

Apr 8, 2025 • 26min
Trump's Tariffs, British Cars and the ZEV Mandate
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

Apr 4, 2025 • 31min
Tackling Trump's Tariffs
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

Mar 31, 2025 • 27min
Trump And The Threat To Democracy.
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

Mar 26, 2025 • 21min
Labour's 'War On Welfare'
Has Labour declared war on welfare? The party was traditionally seen as a friend of the dispossessed, the downtrodden and the disabled, but Chancellor Rachel Reeves is looking to reduce the benefits bill by almost £5 billion pounds through changes revealed in her spring statement as well as previously announced adjustments to eligibility for the Personal Independence Payment. Official estimates forecast that, as a result, more than 3 million families will lose an average of £1700 a year by 2030 Another 3.8 million families will gain from changes to the system but only by an average of £420 a year The government says it will provide an additional £1billion to support people with health conditions into work.Adrian Goldberg discusses the cuts with disabled activist Ellen Clifford, author of The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe and Anna Landre, a wheelchair user who helped shape reform of the disability benefits system in her native USA.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 25, 2025 • 48min
Trump's 'Amerexit'
Is the US engaging in its own self destructive version of the UK's decision to quit the European Union, by withdrawing from a central role in global affairs?Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes is joined by the magazine's editor-in-chief Hardeep Matharu and regular contributor Otto English.Introduced by Adrian Goldberg.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg, Harvey White and Phil Driscoll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 21, 2025 • 29min
Geordie Score: A Saudi Sportwashing Victory
Adrian Goldberg discusses the consequences of Saudi-owned Newcastle United's Carabao Cup Final victory with John Hird and Peter Sagar of NUFC Fans Against Sportwashing.Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 17, 2025 • 23min
Keir Starmer - Benefits Harmer?
Adrian Goldberg discusses Labour's proposed welfare cuts with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Tom Pollard, head of social policy at the New Economics Foundation. Tom is a former senior mental health policy advisor to the DWP, and is a part time mental health social worker.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 14, 2025 • 21min
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
Liverpool was once the UK's primary port of Empire but has now outlived its original purpose and like many post industrial towns in the UK is struggling for a new identity. Adrian Goldberg talks to Sam Wetherell about his new history, 'Liverpool And The Unmaking of Britain' which offers a perspective on the city as a symbol of both obsolescence and regeneration. Sam's book is a kind of love letter, exploring how Merseyside was abandoned by the capital – and by capital - when it was deemed surplus to requirements. And never mind the people left behind....Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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