Byline Podcast

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 and the 1920s. There's also a no-holds barred discussion about the state of British journalism. Produced in Birmingham UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, key moments in the American revolution. One feature of the protests is that activists are mobilising around issues that are relevant to their local area…as well as opposing the Trump administration’s flagrant disregard for the constitutional norms of the USA. The name 50501 stands for 50 states 50 protests 1 movementOne feature of the protests is that activists are mobilising around issues that are relevant to their local area…as well as the Trump administration’s flagrant disregard for the constitutional norms of the USA. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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