Byline Times Podcast

Adrian Goldberg discusses Reform UK's growing reputation for sleaze with Peter Jukes, founder and executive editor of the Byline Times, in the light of revelations made by an undercover Channel 4 documentary. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Has Scotland's parliament lost sight of the consensual model of politics on which it was founded? Exit interviews with outgoing members at Holyrood reveal a mood of frustration and disappointment according to research carried out by the IPPR think tank . Adrian Goldberg hears from Dave Hawkey, a senior research fellow at IPPR Scotland, and Paul Sweeney, Scottish Labour and Co-Op MSP for the Glasgow Region. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the resounding victory of the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland in regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt, Adrian Goldberg hears from Dr. Jan Eichhorn who born in the East German region and has polled voters there. Dr Eichorn s senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Edinburgh. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With news that Jaguar Land Rover is laying off 4,000 workers, is there a future for the UK car industry? Adrian Goldberg talks to Professor David Bailey from Birmingham Business School. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses Prime Minister Andy Burnham's options to solve prison overcrowding with Jodie Anderson  a former criminal barrister and currently a senior caseworker at the charity INQUEST, which works with the families of those who die in custody. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Paul Mason about the future of communism, based on his book 'Reds: A Global History Of Communism.' Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg dicusses President Trump's latest tariffs on Canada with Siobhan Vipond, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress which represents more than 3 million workers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In light of the tragic death of black Cambridge University professor Jason Arday, and the media frenzy that preceded it, Adrian Goldberg revisits an interview with Byline Times Investigations editor Nafeez Ahmed, about the far-right network which promotes the idea of white superiority. Nafeez's book, 'Alt Reich, The Nework War Against The West' is available now from Byline Books. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Russell Warfield about his new biography of Green Party leader Zack Polanski - 'Zack Polanski, The Green Socialist' -which is published in September by Pluto. Russell worked on Polanski’s leadership campaign in 2025 and was previously an active member of the Greens.   Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why hasn't FIFA President Gianni Infantino stepped down after the row over his plan to sell off some World Cup marketing and ticketing rights? Adrian Goldberg hears from Nick McGeehan, founder of sports and human rights pressure group Fair Square. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the west suffering from too much empathy? The argument has been advanced by Gad Saad in his New York Times best seller Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind , where he argues that excessive empathy from the political left is leading society down a self destructive path. But there is another perspective which argues that we need more empathy not less. Adrian Goldberg hears from Vaughan Smith - a war correspondent and one of the founders of London’s Frontline Club - whose new book The Extraction Pattern stands as a rebuttal of Gad Saad. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the 'wave' of 50,000 migrants that appeared recently in the Spanish territory of Ceuta, in North Africa, which prompted claims of an 'invasion' by the far-right on both sides of the Atlantic. He's joined by Stephen Zunes a professor of politics and director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, whose most recent book, coauthored with Jacob Mundy, is Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution  Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Dr James Smith, deputy director of the humanitarian policy and practice programme at UCL, London. Dr Smith is volunteering in Al Mawasi – a coastal region of Gaza – which has become homes to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the conflict with Israel; and where people are waiting anxiously to see if a ‘peace plan’ announced last week by President Trump will become a reality.   Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham, UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Having promised to end 'forever wars,' is US president Donald Trump now at risk of becoming embroiled in one in Iran? Adrian Goldberg hears from Scott Lucas is professor of international politics at the Clinton Institute, University College, Dublin. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What will the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham do differently to Keir Starmer? Can he really get the economy growing in a way that eluded his predecessor…? Is his dream of reindustrialisation a reality? Adrian Goldberg discusses Burnham's big questions with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov and David Bailey, an industrial strategy expert a professor at Birmingham Business School. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg hears from Enda O'Doherty, author of The Dark Side Of France, which traces the history of the French far right.   Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Adrian Goldberg hears from Ukrainians left in limbo after fleeing Putin’s persecution. Following Russia’s full scale invasion in 2022 the UK – like many other European countries – opened its arms to those displaced by the fighting and more than 200,000 live here now.   But unlike refugees from other countries, Ukrainians don’t have a pathway to permanent residence in Britain. The're expected to head back home whenever the conflict ends, despite having built newlives here.   In the meantime, rules around visas and qualifications mean they are being denied jobs and educational opportunities. There are stories of doctors working as cleaners.   Adrian hears from Natalia Kogut who fled Ukraine with her two children and Professor Sara Jones at Birmingham University, who has been researching the plight of Ukrainians in the UK. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to ITV's Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt about the dire state of Britain's social housing stock. Dan is the author of "Left To Rot - How Governments Have Betrayed Us And How We Fix It" is out now via Bristol University Press. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy Burnham discusses his political beliefs and the events that shaped them in this in depth interview with Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu, recorded in July 2025 at the Byline Festival, Keele University. At the time, Burnham was Mayor of Greater Manchester and had no inkling that withing 12 months he'd become PM. The result is an unusually revealing conversation. Video - Sean Byrne Roberts. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg highlights a brilliant Byline Times investigation by Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes which exposes the links between Cambridge University, Reform UK and the Trump-supporting US tech billionaire Peter Thiel… The individual who connects all three is James Orr – who is both an associate professor of Divinity at Cambridge AND Head of Policy at Reform. He’s been described as Nigel Farage’s kingmaker. Orr runs a postgraduate compound in Cambridge , which has hosted various controversial figures including Peter Thiel himself, his protégé, US vice-president JD Vance, Dutch anti-Islam campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Canadian anti woke activist Jordan Peterson.  Nafeez and Peter raise serious questions about student safeguarding, the funding of Orr’s operation and, ultimately, foreign influence in UK politics. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White In Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices