Byline Times Podcast

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.



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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.

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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

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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.



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