Former British diplomat Alex Hall explains why she's launched a crowd funder for Abil, her friend in Gaza.
Produced in Birmingham, UK by Adrian Goldberg
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Small Boats - And The Rising Tide Of Racism
The latest figures show that more than 19,000 migrants have arrived in the UK from France this year after crossing the channel in makeshift vessels, despite government pledges to destroy smuggling gangs and improve border security.
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Cue predictable outrage from the right wing press, GB News, Nigel
Farage and so on. But these negative headlines also seem to be turning the British people against all forms of migration even when new
arrivals come to the country by regular means, according to a new study by Warwick University.
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Adrian Goldberg hears from one of the researchers, Dr Apurav Bhatiya, an economics lecturer from Birmingham University, independent migration expert Zoe Gardner.
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.
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Keir Starmer's U Turns
Are Sir Keir Starmer’s u-turns the sign of a wea and indecisive leader or evidence of someone willing to change their mind and listen to reasoned arguments?
The Prime Minister has backtracked, to a greater or lesser degree, on cuts to winter fuel payments, whether or not to hold a national inquiry into grooming gangs, and now disability benefits.
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He’s also told His biographer Tom Baldwin in The Observer that
he regrets previously suggesting that Britain was at risk of becoming "an island of strangers" because of migration… a speech carrying echoes of Enoch Powell and which provides the theme for this month’s print edition of Byline Times.
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In a conversation on the Byline Supplement to mark its launch,
Byline times executive editor Peter Jukes was joined by editor in chief Hardeep Matharu and political edtor Adam Bienkov.
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.
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"It's The Cost Of Living, Stupid" - Electoral Lessons For Progressives.
What lessons should progressive political parties who want to win elections be learning? Adrian Goldberg hears from Sam Alvis a former Labour party advisor, who worked in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow treasury team and with Ed Miliband on energy policy.
Sam recently returned from Washington, where he met with Joe Biden’s former White House staff, along with Senators and Representatives to ask what went wrong for the Democrats.
 Sam has co-written a report for the Institute of Public Policy Research called "It’s The Cost Of Living, Stupid", riffing on Bill Clinton’s former mantra, and it comes as Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government sets out a long term industrial strategy for the UK.
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 Produced in Birmingham UK, by Adrian Goldberg.
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Ellie Chowns: Green Party Leadership Candidate
Adrian Goldberg talks to Ellie Chowns, MP for North Herefordshire and a candidate for the Green Party leadership, in partnership with Adrian Ramsay, and in opposition to Zack Polanski.
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.
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