Episodes
The Week In Politics - Sunak's First Week
October 28, 2022 17:45 - 33 minutesIn the week that Rishi Sunak became PM, we assess what his new Cabinet tells us about the direction of his government; plus his decision to shun the Cop 27 climate summit in Egypt; and the ongoing stalemate in Northern Ireland’s Assembly at Stormont. Host Adrian Goldberg is by Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and investigations editor Sam Bright. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Qatar World Cup: Human Rights ... And Wrongs
October 27, 2022 20:00 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverley has said that football supporters heading to Qatar for the men’s football World Cup should be respectful to the host nation and be willing to make compromises. But how can you respect a nation which has built a tournament off the back of exploited migrant workers; and where people who are LGBT have to compromise their core identity? Adrian Goldberg hears from Amnesty International's Felix Jakens and and Sarah Robinson, a member of Proud Baggies co...
Abuse Law Flaw
October 26, 2022 05:38 - 22 minutesAdrian Goldberg hears a dismayed reaction to the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse - or IICSA. The Inquiry was commissioned by Theresa May in 2014 after the Jimmy Saville scandal and was designed to investigate the systemic failures that allow abuse to happen and then be covered up - especially in institutions such as schools, the NHS and the BBC. One if its key recommendations is for a law on Mandatory Reporting of abuse but Tom Perry from Mandate Now – who has ...
Sunak as PM; why this ISN'T Britain's 'Obama Moment'
October 25, 2022 05:36 - 32 minutesWe all remember what a breakthrough it represented when an African American became US president – so why isn't Richie Sunaks's elevation to Prime Minister being greeted with similar enthusiasm? He is, after all, a Hindu whose parents came from East Africa, and he's of Punjabi Indian descent. For members of his own community, this IS a comparable milestone. Sanjay Chandarana, President of the Southampton temple founded by Sunak’s grandfather said: “It’s like for the UK, it’s the Barack O...
The Week In Politics - Life After Liz
October 21, 2022 20:09 - 30 minutesWhat a week it’s been with the resignation of Liz Truss, the mooted return of Boris Johnson to frontline politics and the Third Reading of the Public Order Bill. Adrian Goldberg gets reaction from Labour MP Jess Phillips, the Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding, along with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more ab...
Lizz Truss Quits Pt 2 - What Next?
October 21, 2022 06:22 - 1 hourWhat next for the Conservative Party party and more importantly the country after Liz Truss's resignation as PM? There are strong indications tonight that Boris Johnson wants to make a comeback just 6 weeks after leaving office in shame – though under new rules drawn up by the Conservative 1922 Committee, he’ll need to win the support of at least 100 Tory MPs to enter the race. What is this all doing for the UK’s reputation abroad. Adrian Goldberg hears from Byline Times Executive Editor an...
Liz Truss Quits Pt 1 - Instant Reaction
October 20, 2022 15:54 - 55 minutesThat Liz Truss resignation - as it happened on Byline Radio. Adrian Goldberg takes the news from Downing Street, then reaction from Byline Times Executive Editor Peter Jukes, Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Chief European and Social Affairs Reporter Sian Norris. Plus callers to @bylineradio Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. First broadcast via Twitter Spaces @bylineradio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
Austerity 2 - The Sequel
October 19, 2022 12:17 - 28 minutesWith new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt talking of deep spending cuts, what impact will that have on on a society where many people are still reeling from the impact of the first wave of Austerity unleashed by David Cameron and George Osborne in 2010? Adrian Goldberg hears from Byline Times Chief European and Social Affairs reporter Norris. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more abou...
The Dark Heart of Trussonomics
October 17, 2022 05:37 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBIn conversation with Adrian Goldberg, Nafeez Ahmed explores the ideas circulating amongst some senior Conservatives including Prime Minister Liz Truss. Nafeez identifies how Charles Murray, who promotes what Nafeez describes as "scientific racism", has been allowed a platform within the Tory mainstream. Murray argues that some groups in society fare less well than others because they are genetically inferior to others - which leads him to radical economic prescriptions. There's no sugges...
The Week In Politics - Last Chancellor Saloon?
October 14, 2022 17:42 - 26 minutesAre the Conservatives drinking in "last Chancellor saloon" after replacing Kwasi Karteng with Jeremy Hunt? Adrian Goldberg takes soundings on a momentous week in politics from long serving Labour backbencher Steve McCabe and Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. 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
Jan 6 Committee Subpoenas Trump
October 14, 2022 12:51 - 31 minutesAll the latest from Heidi Siegmund Cuda the January 6th Hearings in Washington DC – which has sensationally voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump – this means he will be legally compelled to give evidence. Hosted by Adrian Goldberg. Hear more from Heidi at Radicalized Pod. 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 informati...
Liz Truss and the UK's Financial Crisis
October 13, 2022 15:28 - 23 minutesHow 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 yo...
Putin's Revenge?
October 11, 2022 19:34 - 29 minutesAfter 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 t...
Truss "Goes Trump" Over Jerusalem
October 09, 2022 22:43 - 25 minutesIs 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 d...
The Week In Politics - Tory Party Conference
October 07, 2022 18:12 - 33 minutesAdrian 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
Hedging Their Bets?
October 05, 2022 16:40 - 25 minutesAdrian 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. ...
Iran - A History of Protest
October 04, 2022 17:57 - 23 minutesDozens 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...
Russia's 'Annexation' - Ukraine's Fightback
October 03, 2022 11:28 - 27 minutesAdrian 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 t...
The Week In Politics - Trussed Up In Tufton Street
September 30, 2022 15:59 - 31 minutesWhat 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 Par...
UK Financial Crisis - Bank Intervenes
September 29, 2022 06:05 - 54 minutesThe 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 hear...
Giorgia Meloni and "Mussolini's Grandchidren"
September 27, 2022 07:58 - 31 minutesGiorgia 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
Starmer's Labour "Must Be Bolder"
September 25, 2022 23:08 - 28 minutesAs the Labour party gathers for its Annual Conference in Liverpool, Adrian Goldberg hears a warning from Keir Starmer’s former Strategic Campaigns Adviser Simon Fletcher that the party can’t just assume it will win the next election be default. Writing on bylinetimes.com Simon – who also worked for Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband – says that “a strategy based on caution is a big risk". He's joined in conversation with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmingham by Adr...
"A Budget For The Rich?"
September 24, 2022 06:49 - 31 minutesReaction to Kwasi Karteng’s fiscal statement, his first as Chancellor in Liz Truss’s new government. Was it a budget for the rich? Adrian Goldberg hears from Sam Bright from Byline Times and author of Fortress London: Why We Need to Save The Country From Its Capital; plus Jeevun Sandher head of economics at the New Economics Foundation, and NEF, and Dr Jo Michell, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the West of England. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by s...
Homes For Ukraine - Six Months On
September 23, 2022 05:44 - 39 minutesAdrian Goldberg investigates the government's flagship 'Homes For Ukraine' resettlement scheme, six months after its introduction. 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
Leicester divided by religion
September 21, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutesAfter an eruption of violence between Hindus and Muslims on the streets of Leicester, how much of the tension and rivalry has been imported from nationalists in India? Adrian Goldberg hears from Shockat Adam who grew up in the area where disturbances happened and is now a community activist with MEND – Muslim Engagement and Development. He believes the fires are being stoked by Hindutva – Hindu nationalism based on the sub continent. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey Whi...
Trump Supporters 'Sieg Heil' Moment
September 20, 2022 14:15 - 41 minutesThe place was Youngstown Ohio; the event a Save America Rally; the gesture baffling. As former President Donald Trump listed what he regards as the foreign policy failures of his successor Joe Biden against a background of doomy music and warnings of World War 3 Trump’s supporters raised their right arms in gesture that looked disturbingly like a fascist salute. It wasn’t quite the full Sieg Heil, because those who took part extended their index fingers as well as their arms, but parallels wi...
Should King Charles Pay Inheritance Tax?
September 16, 2022 04:58 - 24 minutesShould the new King Charles pay inheritance tax? The Duchy of Lancaster, which will be passed down to him from his mum, Queen Elizabeth II, is worth an estimated £652m. Normally someone of Charles' wealth would have to pay 40% of that to HMRC, but he’s the beneficiary of an exclusion introduced by then PM John Major in 1993 which makes the monarchy exempt Host Adrian Goldberg hears from two top guests: Stephanie Brobbey, founder and Chief Exec of the Good Ancestor Movement, which supports w...
U.S. Dark Money and the Tory Cabinet
September 15, 2022 05:57 - 27 minutesAdrian Goldberg hears from Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes about American “dark money” and its links to new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Cabinet. You can read the full article here. Produced 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
"Not My King?"
September 13, 2022 10:35 - 19 minutesCan you respectfully mourn the passing of the Queen whilst still opposing the institution she represented? These are questions posed by the reaction of the police in different parts of the UK to those who wanted to counter the Royalist narrative being pumped out by most mainstream media. A woman was arrested for holding up an anti monarchist in Edinburgh during the Royal Proclamation; likewise and man in Oxford. Adrian Goldberg hears from barrister Paul Powlesland, who was threatened wit...
Russia On The Retreat
September 12, 2022 05:44 - 33 minutesWe seem to be at a turning point in Ukraine’s resistance, as Russian troops are forced to flee from dozens of towns and villages outside Kharkiv in the north east of the country – including Kupiansk, an important railway hub and one of Russia’s key supply routes to the east. There are suggestions that the invading forces were outwitted. Russia redeployed troops to Kherson in the south of the country where Ukraine launched another recent offensive…leaving them stretched and vulnerable to s...
Gorbachev, Putin and the 1999 Apartment Block Bombings
September 09, 2022 16:01 - 31 minutesAdrian Goldberg talks to Dr Yuri Felshtinsky who wrote Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within - a book which alleged that a series of apartment block bombings in Russia in 1999 were false flag attacks engineered by the security services. At the time, the bombings – which killed 307 people - were blamed on Islamist terrorists and were used by Vladimir Putin to strengthen his grip on power, Dr Felshtinsky’s book was co written with former KGB and FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko – who was pois...
Byline Investigates: Rwanda Refugee Scheme
September 08, 2022 09:41 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBAdrian Goldberg hears details of a disturbing investigation into the UK’s proposed deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda – a policy heartily endorsed by incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss who has said that she will support and extend the scheme to other countries. The Byline Intelligence Team (BITE) has unearthed details of a previously unreported second deadly protest in Rwanda involving refugees and local security forces. Our reporting team has also discovered that a monitoring com...
Liz Truss - Hopes and Fears
September 06, 2022 18:17 - 52 minutes - 96.6 MBIn this episode, Adrian Goldberg hears listeners hopes and fears about the arrival of Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Truss arrives in the midst of a cost of living crisis that’s destined to get worse, with industrial unrest growing, the NHS in crisis, the ongoing fallout from Brexit, and with international tensions rising after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If it’s a mess, it’s one she has helped create having held Cabinet positions since 2014, most recently serving as Johnson’s Foreign Se...
Boris Johnson's Legacy
September 05, 2022 19:24 - 27 minutesBoris Johnson’s was the Prime Minister who promised to get Brexit done, who oversaw the UK’s response to Covid and who promised a levelling up agenda. He was also forced to stand down in disgrace, laid low by a series of scandals that pointed to his dishonesty and lack of judgement. Otto English - whose best selling book Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped The World included a chapter dedicated to Boris’s porkies - analyses his legacy. Produced and presented by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subs...
MP: "I Won't Be Silenced Over Boris Russia Links"
September 02, 2022 16:24 - 21 minutesThis time we return to the subject of Boris Johnson’s attendance at a party in Italy in 2018 at a castle owned by newspaper proprietor Evgeny Lebdev, son of former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev. At the time Johnson was Foreign Secretary, before becoming PM in 2019. Evgeny - who owns The Independent and the Evening Standard - became a life peer in 2020 despite reports of concerns by the security services.Lebedev insists he is not a security risk. That hasn't stopped Labour MP Matt Western asking ...
UK's Fuel Poverty "Humanitarian Crisis"
September 01, 2022 06:15 - 25 minutesIn the latest episode, we hear a stark warning that escalating energy prices will lead to a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in the UK. A new report by two leading experts suggests that thousands of lives will be lost and the development of millions of children blighted as a result of fuel poverty, triggered by rising energy prices. The grim prediction comes from Professor Sir Michael Marmot from UCL in London with Professor Ian Sinha, a consultant at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. Sir Mich...
Pakistan Floods: "A Man Made Tragedy"
August 31, 2022 06:09 - 33 minutesAdrian Goldberg discusses the tragedy of Pakistan’s floods which have killed more than 1100 people and left a third of the country under water. Un Sec General Antonio Guterres described it as a “monsoon on steroids” as he launched a campaign to raise 160million US dollars to provide help for the those affected. We hear from Asad Rehman, co-founder of the Climate Justice Coalition who has spent years raising the issue of Pakistan's vulnerability to climate change, and Heidi Chow, director of t...
The Crosby Show
August 26, 2022 13:25 - 25 minutesThis time it’s the Crosby Show…as we examine the influence of political strategist Sir Lynton Crosby, advisor to David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson. Australian Crosby – sometimes known as the 'Wizard of Oz' - is credited with founding the “dead cat” strategy, which involves creating a diversion if your favoured candidate is coming under intense pressure. It’s a tactic which has arguably defined Boris Johnson’s tenure in Downing Street... Max Colbert who has written about Crosby ...
Ukrainian Independence Day
August 25, 2022 05:53 - 31 minutesAn episode marking Ukrainian Independence Day, discovering the nation's history and finding out what the future holds following Russia’s invasion. Adrian Goldberg hears from Denys Ghaza a Ukrainian Youth Delegate to the UN, and Zarina Zabrisky who has been covering the Russian invasion from inside Ukraine for Byline Times and the Euromaidan News Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Originally broadcast via Twitter Spaces @bylineradio Hosted...
KILLING DARYA DUGINA
August 21, 2022 20:49 - 36 minutesIn this episode, Adrian Goldberg is joined from Kyiv by Zarina Zabrisky who tells us more about the context surrounding the brutal murder of the daughter of Alexander Dugin – the man dubbed “Putin’s brain” and the architect of many of his key policies. Darya Dugina was blown up a car 30 miles outside Moscow. Was the real target her father? Alexander Dugin doesn’t hold a government position but he is seen as the architect of latter-day Russian nationalism promoting the idea that the cou...
Cost of Living Health Crisis
August 19, 2022 19:44 - 49 minutesHealth bosses are warning of a "public health emergency" and a rise in excess winter deaths unless the government takes action to help people deal with rising energy prices. The NHS Confederation which represents health service managers in England, Wales and Norther Ireland says that with annual energy bills going up to £3,600 a year October – before increasing again in April - more people will be forced to choose between heating and eating. They say this will lead to more illness and – quote...
Ukraine's Nuclear Fear Factor
August 17, 2022 15:52 - 32 minutesZarina Zabrisky reports on what is potentially the deadliest point of conflict in the Russia/Ukraine war – the Zaporizhzia nuclear plant in Enerhodar in south eastern Ukraine… Both countries have accused the other of shelling the nuclear plant which is the largest in Europe…Ukraine’s President Zelensky has warned that Russian troops who use the Zaporizhzia as cover to attack Ukrainian towns and cities will be targeted. The G7 group of countries has called on Russia to withdraw to avoid cr...
Liz Truss vs Richie Sunak
August 15, 2022 21:17 - 46 minutesByline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov discusses the Tory leadership contest with Adrian Goldberg. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Originally 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
Amnesty's "Russian Propaganda"
August 11, 2022 21:00 - 21 minutesA report by Amnesty International has been denounced as "Russian propaganda" by the organisation's Ukrainian chief, who has since quit. Hear why with journalist Tom Mutch who talks to Adrian Goldberg from Kyiv. 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
Dividends, Dividends Everywhere
August 08, 2022 16:52 - 27 minutesEngland is facing the prospect of an official drought – millions of people have had hosepipe bans – but 2.4 billion litres of water are wasted in England every day thanks to leaky pipes. Figures obtained by the Lib Dems show that in the last two years executives at water and sewage companies paid themselves more than £27m in bonuses, benefits and other incentives – and overall gave themselves £48million in pay. In Scotland and Wales though, water is run on a non profit basis. Adrian Gold...
Alex Jones Misinfo Wars
August 06, 2022 22:46 - 34 minutesFar right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay more than $49million dollars – around £40 million pounds – in damages after his repeated claims that the Sandy Hook School massacre in 2012 was a hoax. He claimed the incident was fabricated to increase support for gun control. 26 people were killed in the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut – 20 of them children; Jones has now acknowledged that the tragedy was real, but how was he allowed to flourish unchecked for so long an...
Russia's 'Scorched Earth' In Ukraine
August 04, 2022 21:42 - 36 minutesAdrian Goldberg gets the latest update on Russia's invasion of Ukraine from Zarina Zabrisky, who has been to the site of a massacre in Bucha, as well Irpin and Hostomel, and other areas close to the capital Kyiv. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Originally 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
Let Down By Levelling Up?
July 27, 2022 04:26 - 43 minutesAdrian Goldberg hears details of a new study which shows that the public spending gap between London and the north of England has grown, despite government promises to 'level up' the regions. His guests are Amreen Qureshi from IPPR North, the think tank which conducted the research; and Sam Bright from Byline Times, author of 'Fortress London; Why We Need To Save The Country From Its Capital'. Funded by subscriptions to Byline Times. Originally broadcast via Twitter Spaces @bylineradio Host...
Sunak v Truss
July 26, 2022 06:26 - 1 hour - 166 MBAdrian Goldberg is joined by Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes to discuss the race to become next Conservative Party leader - and therefore the UK's next Prime Minister - following a televised debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss on BBC1. They are joined by a cast of (mostly) excellent callers discussing (amongst other things) the economy, LGBTQ rights, sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, freeports and Scottish independence. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey ...
Brexit and Britain's Border Chaos
July 24, 2022 21:15 - 16 minutesTo what extent are problems for holidaymakers at Britain's borders due to Brexit? Adrian Goldberg investigates with Simon Calder, travel editor of The Independent. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. 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