Byline Podcast Adrian Goldberg

It'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 all by introducing proportional representation, to ensure there are no wasted votes?

Adrian Goldberg talks to Shaun Roberts from Unlock Democracy.

Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg for Byline Audio.
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In 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 a Migrants' Commissioner; tougher powers for the Independent of Chief Inspector of Borders; and to hold reconciliation events,

The government has now lost a court case and been told to re-instate the first two of those recommendations, but not the third. Adrian Goldberg hears from Windrush survivor Glenda Caesar; Timi Okuwa,CEO of the Black Equity Organisation which helped bring the court case; and Bishop Desmond Jaddoo from the Windrush National Organisation.
 
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Byline 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.
 
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Is 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 from Steve Cockburn who’s just compiled a major report on both proposals for Amnesty International, and Lina Al Halthloul, a Saudi exile from campaigning Saudi human rights group ALQST.

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Adrian 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.

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In 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’s National Rally.
 
In Germany, the Social Democrats, the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz were pushed into third place by the nationalist AfD. The result still leaves the EU parliament dominated by traditional centre right and centre left parties but for how long will that remain the case?  And what do these results tells us more broadly about the appeal of the far right in Europe.

Adrian Goldberg talks to Seema Syeda is a Marseille-based researcher working on European politics for UK-based campaign group Another Europe Is Possible; and Linda Kalcher, the Executive Director of a pan-European think tank Strategic Perspectives who is based in Belgium.

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