Byline Times Podcast

Adrian Goldberg discusses the attempted impeachment of the US Secretary of State For War with Professor Scott Lucas, at the Clinton Institute, University College, Dublin.Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Has Republican defeat in the mid-terms destroyed the consensus over US support for Israel? Adrian Goldberg talks to Sarah Jaffe, author of From The Ashes and Necessary Trouble, Americans In Revolt.

Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham, UK.

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Adrian Goldberg assesses the Democrats emphatic victory in the US mid terms with Alex Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat turned political commentator.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Adrian Goldberg explores Adam Ramsay's new book 'Abolish Westminster' with the author. 'Abolish Westminster' is published, appropriately enough, on November 5, the anniversary of Guy Fawkes' attempt to blow up parliament.

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Adrian Goldberg hears about a three-year, far-right influence campaign aimed at stirring up anti-Muslim hatred in Europe by amplifying the Great Replacement Theory – the idea that Muslims are stealthily seeking to replace white Europeans in their homelands. Anti migrant sentiment was also promoted…

Facebook,Tik Tok, you tube, Google ads and X are all implicated – with the operation seemingly designed to affect the outcome of various elections in Europe.

Adrian hears from Marc Owen Jones – associate professor of media analytics at North Western University in Qatar who compiled the report along with open...

Whatever happened to Hong Kong democracy campaigner Joshua Wong, who was featured in the hit Netflix doc, 'Teenager vs Superpower'?

In this special edition of the podcast, Andrew Duncan shares Joshua's back story with Adrian Goldberg. To watch an exclusive video update, head over now to Byline Times TV. Podcast produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Adrian Goldberg talks to former UK diplomat Alex Hall Hall about President Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin and the forthcoming US mid term elections.

Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Adrian Goldberg discusses ITV's undercover investigation of Reform UK, which uncovered racism among candidates and councillors, with Byline Times Investigations editor, Nafeez Ahmed.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Adrian Goldberg is joined by Abrham Meareg, whose father was murdered in Ethiopia after disinformation was posted on Facebook. We also hear from Martha Dark at Foxglove, which is supporting Abrahm in a legal case against Facebook's owners, Meta.

Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham.

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Russia DID interfere in the 2016 EU referendum, according to UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Adrian Goldberg hears from Byline Times editor Peter Jukes who has been making this case for the best part of a decade. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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In partnership with The Reckoning Project, we look at how war crimes can be pursued across borders. With Janine Di Giovanni. Introduced by Adrian Goldberg for Byline Times.

For TRP: Produced by Aliide Naylor with Charles Bell Media.

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In the wake of Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee, Adrian Goldberg hears from Revd. Dr. Crystal Walker about her murdered son Edward. She explains why, despite his killing, she is opposed to the death penalty."

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The age of imperialism is officially over, with UK and European nations no longer ruling Africa, but in his new book, 'China's African Empire - The Country That Captured A Continent', Paul Kenyon traces how the world's rising superpower has replaced them.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg

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Janine di Giovanni explores the pursuit of justice for victims of war crimes in a special mini-series created by The Reckoning Project, with Byline Times. This time - Propaganda as a War Crime with Peter Pomerantsev.

For TRP: Produced by Aliide Naylor with Charles Bell Media.

For Byline Times Podcast: Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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It wasn't so much ‘honest guv’ as 'honest gov' when Andy Burnham spoke at The Labour Party conference in Liverpool. The PM pledged to  say the things politicians usually avoid - namely deindustrialisation, deregulation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit were all 'named and shamed'. The headlines were the scrapping of the existing triple lock system for pensions, with the savings used to fund a National Care System, and electoral reform.

Adrian Goldberg discusses the speech with Byline Times Political editor Adam Bienkov and Chief Reporter Josiah Mortimer.

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Adrian Goldberg and Dr Jan Zglinski from the LSE explore the geopolitics of the Premier League's case against Manchester City amid reports that the club has been found guilty of 144 breaches of financial rules. City denies any wrongdoing.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Janine di Giovanni explores the world of justice for victims of war crimes in a special mini-series created by The Reckoning Project, with Byline Times. This first episode traces a path from Slobodan Milosevic to Vladmir Putin.

For TRP: Produced by Charles Bell Media with Aliide Naylor.

For Byline Times Podcast: Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Adrian Goldberg talks to acclaimed war reporter Janine Di Giovanni about The Reckoning Project - the first part of a forthcoming series in conjunction with the Byline Times Podcast.

Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White in Birmingham.

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Andy Burnham’s government should throw off the shackles of the international money markets and look at alternative ways of funding public investment, argues Jamie Driscoll, former Labour Mayor for the North of Tyne region.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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Adrian Goldberg talks to Kyle Taylor, author of 'The Little Black Book Of Artificial Intelligence' about warnings that AI could wipe out the internet and even destroy humankind.

Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 educatio...

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.

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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.

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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 Canadi...