Byline Podcast

Mar 06 2025 379 ep. 34 mins 470
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Adrian Goldberg explores the latest political stories from Westminster and the world.

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Donald Trump's Theatre of Cruelty

Mar 06 2025 49 mins  
President Trump's treatment of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy is increasingly looking less like international diploamacy and more like performative cruelty. But why? Adrrian Goldberg introduces a conversation between Byline Times Executive Editor Peter Jukes and Editor in Chief Hardeep Matharu. Produced by Adrian Goldberg, Harvey White and Phil Driscoll. Learn more

Starmer and Trump - A Special Relationship?

Mar 03 2025 33 mins  
Can UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer really be the bridge across the Atlantic to Donald Trump, an American president seemingly hell bent on destroying the NATO alliance…? Adrian Goldberg discusses whether the two leaders have a special relationship - and whether that can help Ukraine - with former UK diplomat Alex Hall Hall. Produced in Birmingham UK, by Adrian Goldberg. Learn

What next for Germany?

Mar 02 2025 24 mins  
Adrian Goldberg asks 'what's next for Germany?' after an election which saw the centre-right Union alliance between the conservative CDU and the CSU takes 28% of the vote. The CDU’s leader Friedrich Merz is in pole position to form the next government and become Chancellor but the far right AfD came second with 20% of the votes and polled especially strongly in the east of the c

Ash Sarkar - 'Minority Rule'

Feb 26 2025 30 mins  
Social media phenomenon and left wing polemicist Ash Sarkar talks to Adrian Goldberg about her new book 'Minority Rule – Adventures In The Culture Wars' published by Bloomsbury. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Where Is Trump's Empathy for Ukraine?"

Feb 24 2025 27 mins  
On the third anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, Adrian Goldberg talks to Ukrainian opposition MP Inna Sovsun. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American Gangster: Trump's First Month

Feb 21 2025 60 mins  
Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu and executive editor Peter Jukes assess Trump's first month in power. Produced by Adrian Goldberg and Phil Driscoll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ukraine and Trump’s New World Order

Feb 17 2025 27 mins  
As this podcast was recorded, European heads of state were holding an emergency summit in Paris having been blindsided by President Trump’s apparent willingness to enter negotiations with Putin about the future of Ukraine without President Zelensky. The US has indicated that any military assistance it does give to Kyiv will be dependent on access to its mineral deposits, but Def

Vote Labour, Get....Reform????

Feb 13 2025 23 mins  
Adrian Goldberg talks to Kolbassia Haoussou, from Freedom From Torture - a former refugee - about government guidance stating that any asylum seeker who arrives in the UK on a 'dangerous journey', will be denied citizenship. That's despite the fact that Britain is a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, which says asylum seekers and refugees should not be penalised for illeg

Trump's Trade Wars

Feb 10 2025 34 mins  
Adrian Goldberg gets a view from Canada and Mexico as President Trump announces swingeing tarrifs on the import of steel and aluminium from his nearest neighbours. We hear from Alex Gonzalez Ormerod, a political analyst at The Mexico Political Economist and Jen Hassum, is Executive Director at the Broadbent Institute, a progressive Canadian think tank. Produced in Birmingham, UK b

Trump's Second Coming

Feb 07 2025 21 mins  
Adrian Goldberg talks about the early weeks of Donald Trump's second coming as US President. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices