Byline Times Podcast

David Edgar, playwright and far-right commentator, offers cultural and historical perspective. Liam Byrne, Labour MP and policy analyst, explains economic and political drivers. They discuss the funding behind right-wing media, links between deindustrialisation and populist appeal, how national populists shift economically, youth support, migration as a political weapon, and strategies for progressive unity and reform.

The UK government has temporarily blocked political donations by cryptocurrency and capped donations by UK citizens living overseas at £100,000 following recommendations by senior civil servant Philip Rycroft. Rycroft was commissioned to carry out an independent report after Reform UK MP Nathan Gill was convicted of accepting bribes to promote Russian interests. Adrian Goldberg analyses the world of political influence with Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes and cheif report Josiah Mortimer. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the giovernment's 40% cut in overseas aid with Green Party MP Ellie Chowns and Gideon Rabinowitz, Director of Policy and Advocacy at BOND, a UK-based network for international development NGOs . Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Byline Times editor in chief Hardeep Matharu and Byline Times executive editor Peter Jukes about Donald Trump's war in Iran; they examine the chaos, confusion and the cost. Plus - the Byline Times seventh anniversary and Paul Conroy RIP. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former West Midlands Mayor Andy Street is proposing an alternative to the populist drift of Conservatism. Along with ex Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, he has launched Prosper a campaign group aimed at the UK's politically homeless centre and centre-right voters. Andy tells Adrian Goldberg why the Conservatives need to shift to the middle ground. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the so-called 'special relationship' between the UK and US with Scott Lucas, professor of US and international politics at UCD Clinton in Dublin and founder of EA World. Would it be more accurate, they wonder, to call it a 'coercive relationship'. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nafeez Ahmed explains how a 30 year-old plan to redraw the Middle East drawn up by US NeoCons is now playing out in Iran. Adrian Goldberg asks the questions. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham, UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg discusses the war on Iran waged by the USA and Israel with Scott Lucas, professor of US and international politics at UCD Clinton in Dublin and editor of the EA World View. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Green Party pulled off a stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election, deposing Labour who trailed in third place, with Reform UK 2nd. Adrian Goldberg discusses the result with Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov. Produced by Adrian Goldberg in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adrian Goldberg talks to Zarina Zabrisky, who has covered Russia’s war in Ukraine from Odessa, Kiev and the frontline in Kherson, where she identified the ‘human safari’ drone warfare on civilians being waged by Putin’s troops. Sergiy Kashylov, a Ukrainian exiled in the UK also joins the conversation. Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices