Byline Podcast

How did the UK’s financial crisis begin? How can do to solve it? And what does it mean for Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Karteng?Adrian Goldberg hears from Danisha Kazi, senior economist at Positive Money and Sam Bright, from Byline Times and author of Fortress London – Why We Need To Save The Country From Its Capital.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscribers to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the bombing of the Kerch Bridge which links Russia to Crimea, President Putin has commissioned missile assaults on major Ukrainian cities including the capital Kiev, as well as Zaphorizhia and Lviv.Putin has explicitly linked his latest round of death and destruction with the attack on the bridge, which is both strategically and symbolically important linking, as it does, Russia to a region of Ukraine it annexed in 2014.But where he stop? And how are ordinary Ukrainians facing up to this latest assault.Adrian Goldberg hears from Zarina Zabrisky, a regular Byline Times contributor in Odessa, and Yehven Petrov in Kiev. Yehven is Secretary General of the Public Diplomacy Platform which promotes engagement with civil society.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.Originally broadcast @bylineradio via Twitter Spaces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is Liz Truss about to go full Trump by relocating the UK Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? If so, it's a decision which would be loaded with political signifigance.The PM told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid at the UN summit in New York last month that a move was under consideration.The proposal has been condemned both nationally and internationally with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby warning that it could damage peace prospects.Adrian Goldberg hears from former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall – her 30 years in The Foreign Office included heading the Middle East Peace Process Section. She was also head of the UK’s Human Rights Department and advised the US State Department on Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East.Produced by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears reflections on the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham from Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov, and Sir John Curtice, politics professor at the University of Strathclyde and senior research fellow at both Nat Cen Social Research and The UK in A Changing Europe.Produced by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about the hedge fund managers who have donated thousands of pounds to the likes of Boris Johnson, other Conservative MPs and the Tory party generally, and questions whether those who stand to personally benefit from what the government does should be in any position to wield influence inside Number 10 or Number 11 Downing Street. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dozens of people have died in street protests in Iran following the death in police custody of 22 year old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police for allegedly violating the law that requires women to cover their hair with a hijab - or headscaf. Adrian Goldberg hears from Nasrin Parvaz, a women's rights activist forced to flee Iran in 1993 after being imprisoned and tortured so badly that she developed a brain tumour.She’s detailed her experiences in a book called One Woman’s Struggle In Iran – A Prison Memoir.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Zarina Zabrisky in Odessa about Vladmir Putin’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine - and what that means for the war. Russia recently held fake 'referendums' in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson - areas it has seized in the south and east of the country - seeking to justify its invasion. Ukraine has already retaliated on the battlefield winning back the strategically important city of Lyman in the Donetsk region; and there are reports that Kherson is in the process of being reclaimed.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What a week it’s been. The Bank of England was forced into a £65bn intervention to head off a pensions crisis triggered by new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s Financial Statement which proposed a 5p in the pound cut in the top rate of income tax, funded by massive borrowing. The markets were spooked, and a round of local radio interviews with Liz Truss to retrieve the situation was generally regarded as being not so much a car crash as a multi vehicle pile up. Meanwhile, off the back of a Party Conference that proposed a publicly owned green energy company, Labour has amassed a 33 point lead in the polls.Adrian Goldberg hears analysis from Sam Bright, Byline Times Investigations Editor and author of Fortress London; Why We Need To Save The Country from its capital and Adam Bienkov Byline Times Westminster correspondent.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UK is in the grip of a full blown financial crisis, with the Bank of England forced to make an emergency intervention because of “material risk to UK financial stability”.This in the aftermath of Kwasi Kwarteng’s Financial Statement which slashed taxes for high earners, and earned an unprecedented rebuke from the Washington-based International Monetary Fund who said that the government’s economic policy would undermine efforts by the Bank to tackle rising inflation.Adrian Goldberg hears from Tony Yates – a former Professor of Economics at Birmingham University who was also at the Bank Of England for 21 years and Ewan McGaughey an academic at Kings College London who also teaches at the Paris School of Economics.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey WhiteFunded by subscriptions to Byline Times.First broadcast via Twitter Spaces @bylineradio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Giorgia Meloni is the brink of becoming Italy's first female prime minister - and leader of its most right wing government since the days of Mussolini.Adrian Goldberg hears from David Broder author of “Mussolini’s Grandchildren – Fascism in Contemporary Italy”Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices