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.
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Ukraine and Trump’s New World Order
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 Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ruled out the country’s NATO membership,
Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK is willing to commit troops to a peace keeping force if a settlement can be reached, but there’s a bigger picture at play here…the reshaping of the world in accordance with the dictates of MAGA.
Trump and his accomplices see a world in which major powers operate spheres of influence – so that the Americas belong to the US and Eastern Europe is Russia’s...the people of Taiwan must be feeling very twitchy right now.
As for Europe, the President has made it clear that we’ll have to make a far greater contribution to our defence – at the same time as hobbling our economy with tariffs.
When it comes to freedom, is seems that America is no longer the Great Protector. Instead it’s the Great Protectionist.
Adrian Goldberg gets a view from Byline Times reporter Zarina Zabrisky in Odesa.
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.
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27:39
Vote Labour, Get....Reform????
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 illegal entry to a country.
This is the latest move from Labour to show that it's being tough on migration.
The Home Office recently released photos of migrants being forced on deportation flights, some in handcuffs and waist restraints; it also published footage of enforcement raids which were part of a crackdown on illegal workers.
Facebook Ads placed by Labour boasting about some of these measures have used Reform UK's colours, not the party’s traditional red… so is Keir Starmer cosplaying Nigel Farage? If you vote Labour, are you actually getting Reform instead?
Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg.
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Trump's Trade Wars
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 by Adrian Goldberg.
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Trump's Second Coming
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.
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