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Donald Trump and the Supreme Court 'Coup'
Byline Podcast - July 03, 2024 04:47 - 24 minutesWas the Supreme Court verdict which ruled that Donald Trump had immunity from prosecution the result of a Supreme Court 'coup'? Heidi Siegmund Cuda and Tom Carter make the case that right wing Catholic activist Leonard Leo has 'captured' the US judiciary in pursuit of an economically liberal, s...
Election 24: Would PR Make For Better Politics?
Byline Podcast - June 27, 2024 22:09 - 30 minutesIt's Kier Starmer’s landslide dilemma – if Labour wins an outright majority on the 2024 election, as the polls predict, does their leader accept this as a gift from the gods and take advantage of our first past the post system? Or does he take the opportunity to reshape politics once and for al...
Windrush: The Need For Reconciliation
Byline Podcast - June 22, 2024 07:13 - 30 minutesIn reaction to the Windrush Scandal, the Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams in 2020 made 30 recommendations to remedy the situation. These were accepted by then Home Secretary Priti Patel, but her successor Suella Braverman then rowed back on three of the recommendations. These called for ...
Peter Jukes: Five Questions for Nigel Farage
Byline Podcast - June 20, 2024 22:57 - 31 minutesByline Times executive editor poses five question for Reform Party leader Nigel Farage. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by We Bring Audio for Byline Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FIFA Risks Saudi World Cup Own Goal
Byline Podcast - June 18, 2024 06:46 - 27 minutesIs football’s world governing body FIFA about to score a own goal as it assess the contenders for two forthcoming World Cups? The 2034 tournament looks set forSaudi Arabia, a country with an appalling human right record. Spain, Portugal and Morrocco are bidding for 2030. Adrian Goldberg hears ...
Tufton Street, The Tories - And How To Buy Influence
Byline Podcast - June 14, 2024 16:38 - 25 minutesAdrian Goldberg talks to Peter Geoghan about his revelations exposing the influence of Tufton Street think tanks on the Conservative Party and British Politics. Adam Bienkov adds details of his exclusive report about one Tory donor Lord Bamford, and his company JCB. Produced in Birmingham by Ad...
Europe's March To The Far Right
Byline Podcast - June 11, 2024 06:58 - 32 minutesIn the EU elections, voters in France, Germany and Italy have shown an increasing appetite for populist anti-immigrant parties. The French president Emmanuelle Macron has reacted by calling a snap parliamentary election after his party was beaten into second place in the EU poll by Marine le Pen’...
Election 24: Farage and the Brexit Elephant In The Room
Byline Podcast - June 07, 2024 15:17 - 25 minutesAdrian Goldberg discusses Nigel Farage's decision to stand as a candidate in Clacton; and the 'elephant in the room' of Brexit. His guests are Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov; Peter Corr from the National Rejoin March; and Dr Mark Goodwin a politics lecturer at Coventry University. Pr...
India's Election; A Pushback Against Populism
Byline Podcast - June 05, 2024 06:39 - 20 minutesAdrian Goldberg assesses India's 2024 Election results with Amogh Dhar Sharma, a lecturer at Oxford University and author of The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions...
War On Democracy: The US Far Right
Byline Podcast - May 31, 2024 06:11 - 24 minutesAdrian Goldberg talks to investigative journalist Mike Wendling about his new book Day of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by We Bring Audio for Byline Audio. Learn more about your...
Putin - And the Impossible Price of Peace
Byline Podcast - May 27, 2024 06:03 - 26 minutesHow serious is Russia about peace in Ukraine; and what price would the Ukrainian people be willing to pay to end the invasion of their sovereign territory? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times reporter Zarina Zabrisky, who in the last week has been to been Lviv, Odesa, Kyiv, and Chernihiv. Pr...
Election 24: Will 'The Sun' Shine On Starmer?
Byline Podcast - May 23, 2024 16:50 - 22 minutesWill Rupert Murdoch's 'Sun' newspaper give its backing to Rish Sunak's Labour Party? Adrian Goldberg talks to Brian Cathcart former professor of journalism at Kingston University and one of the founders of the Hacked Off campaign, and Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced in Birmi...
What The Heck Is Byline Audio
Byline Podcast - May 21, 2024 21:11 - 21 minutesAdrian Goldberg delves into the new world of Byline Audio, with Peter Jukes, Joanna Scanlan, Otto English, John Mitchinson. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by We Bring Audio for Byline Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
'Draconian and Dangerous'
Byline Podcast - May 17, 2024 06:29 - 28 minutes"Extreme protest groups" should be subject to strict new laws according to the government’s independent advisor on political violence Lord Walney. This would include organisations like Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action whose members are willing to break the law to get their point across. They...
Georgia Protests: An Explainer
Byline Podcast - May 14, 2024 09:53 - 23 minutesThe former Soviet state of Georgia has been rocked by protests in the capital Tbilisi over a proposed law which critics say is a cover for increasing Russia’s hold on the country. Russia already occupies around 20% of Georgian territory following its invasion in 2008, and the ruling Georgian Dr...
Natalie Elphicke, Labour and The Press
Byline Podcast - May 13, 2024 18:11 - 16 minutesNatalie Elphicke is the one time Tory MP who crossed the floor of the House of Commons recently to join the backbenches on Keir Starmer’s side, prompting more than a few raised eyebrows among her new colleagues. The Dover MP was seen as being on the right of the party – she has backed strionger...
Rafah Attack: US Pauses Israel Bomb Exports
Byline Podcast - May 09, 2024 06:35 - 24 minutesDoes the US decision to pause a bomb shipment to Israel because of concerns over its incursion into Rafah mark a U-turn in Washington's stance on the war in Gaza? A US spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Israel hasn’t “fully addressed” its concerns over the needs of around 1 ...
Labour Holds London, Gains West Midlands
Byline Podcast - May 06, 2024 07:06 - 26 minutesIn this second podcast about England's local election results Adrian Goldberg reflects on success for Labour in the mayoral elections. They held London despite some forecasts to the contrary and secured the West Midlands, where Richard Parker won the vote after a partial recount to see off the in...
Tories Walloped But Gaza Drains Labour
Byline Podcast - May 06, 2024 07:01 - 26 minutesAdrian Goldberg assesses England's local election results with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and former Labour councillor Shaista Aziz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A SLAPP In The Face For Free Speech
Byline Podcast - May 03, 2024 11:27 - 27 minutesWe mark Press Freedom Day by celebrating the Anti-Slapp campaign, which is aimed at protecting journalists who want to expose wrongdoing. A SLAPP is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation – a legal case brought, usually by the rich and powerful to intimidate those who want to question ...
How The Far Right Exploits Abuse
Byline Podcast - April 30, 2024 14:49 - 27 minutesAndrew Kersley and Hardeep Matharu explore how ow the far right exploits victims of child sexual exploitation as featured in the latest print edition of Byline Times. Hosted by Adrian Goldberg. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by ...
"Cruel Measures" - Rwanda, Small Boats and Migration
Byline Podcast - April 30, 2024 14:41 - 24 minutesAfter five more people died in the Channel attempting to cross to the UK – one of them a seven year old girl – Adrian Goldberg asks if the government’s Rwanda scheme is a humane response, and whether it will be effective. Rishi Sunak made it an article of faith to push the Rwanda Bill through p...
Angela Rayner, Mark Menzies - A Tale of Two "Scandals'
Byline Podcast - April 30, 2024 14:37 - 25 minutesTwo MP's, Angela Rayner and Mark Menzies are embroiled in what the tabloids like to call a 'scandal'. Both deny any wrong doing. But what unites these stories - and what divides them? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and John McTernan, Tony Blair’s director of...
Goldberg Investigates: IPP Jail Sentences
Byline Podcast - April 30, 2024 13:57 - 32 minutesAdrian Goldberg investigates Imprisonment for Public Protection jail sentences and the licensing conditions that are attached to them. He's joined by Ishuba Salmon, who was spent 17 years in jail on IPP sentences; Emma McClure from SL5 legal who represented Matthew Price; and Donna Mooney from ca...
How Brexit 'Wrecked The Stock Market'
Byline Podcast - April 30, 2024 13:39 - 22 minutes"How Brexit Wrecked The Stock Market" is the startling title of new blog by Simon Nixon, one time chief leader writer for the Times and former chief European commentator on the Wall Street journal. His Substack "The Wealth of Nations" is a must read for anyone interested in the workings of the ...
Angela Rayner, Mark Menzies - A Tale of Two 'Scandals'
Byline Podcast - April 20, 2024 07:51 - 23 minutesTwo MP's, Angela Rayner and Mark Menzies are embroiled in what the tabloids like to call a 'scandal'. Both deny any wrong doing. But what unites these stories - and what divides them? Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and John McTernan, Tony Blair’s director o...
Goldberg Investigates: IPP Jail Sentences
Byline Podcast - April 18, 2024 04:31 - 31 minutesAdrian Goldberg investigates Imprisonment for Public Protection jail sentences and the licensing conditions that are attached to them. He's join by Ishuba Salmon, who was spent 17 years in jail on IPP sentences; Emma McClure from SL5 legal who represented Matthew Price; and Donna Mooney from ca...
Kids Care Home Kerching!
Byline Podcast - April 09, 2024 20:12 - 25 minutesAmalfi Midco - parent company of the UK’s largest children's care Home provider Care Tech – has published annual accounts showing that it charged local authorities £575 million but spent £136 million of that on what it describes as ‘financial expenses’. This means at more than £1 in every £5 pr...
Will Hutton: 'This Time No Mistakes'
Byline Podcast - April 04, 2024 05:45 - 39 minutesFormer "Observer" Editor in Chief Will Hutton talks to Adrian Goldberg about his new book "This Time No Mistakes - How To Remake Britain" (Bloomsbury) which calls for an alliance on the progressive left. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the ...
"Not In Our Name": Jews Speak Out on Gaza
Byline Podcast - March 30, 2024 21:43 - 29 minutesAdrian Goldberg hears from UK-based Jews saying “not in my name” in reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza. This time – the Jews saying “not in my name” in reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza. Emily Hilton is the UK Director of Diapora Alliance and co founder of Na'aamod: British Jews Against Occup...