The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In episode 12, we ask what has went wrong in Glasgow and how do we fix it? We are joined by Paul Sweeney, a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Region and a former MP.  

The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our eleventh episode we consider the reverse Midas touch of the Scottish Greens in Government on policies such as heat pumps, deposit return schemes and highly protected marine areas - where everything turns to tragedy.

The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our tenth episode we ask how easy is it to access environmental justice in Scotland if your local woodland or park is under threat? We are joined by Hannah Moneagle, a practising solicitor, former Director of Grampian Community Law Centre, an environmental justice campaigner and former police officer.

The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our ninth episode we ask what does Labour stand for? Labour has a massive opportunity to offer people real change across the UK. Yesterday, Keir Starmer said Labour would keep the nefarious two-child benefit cap - a U-turn on his position in 2020. So what does Labour stand for?

The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our eighth episode we examine the first 100 days that Humza Yousaf MSP has been in power as Scotland's First Minister and consider what the future may have in store.

The Ordinary Elite is a Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our seventh episode we talk with Mark Blyth, Professor of Political Economy at Brown University, a Ivy League university in Rhode Island, USA. Mark is author of many publications including ‘Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea’ and 'Angrynomics'. We discuss inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, the UK housing crisis, economics, Brexit and Scottish independence - and Oor Wullie and the Broons!

The Ordinary Elite is a new Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our sixth episode, with Nicola Sturgeon being questioned by Police Scotland, Donald Trump being indicted in Florida and Boris Johnson resigning in advance of a Privileges Committee report, does this mark a turning point in populist and post truth politics?

The Ordinary Elite is a new Scottish podcast from Glasgow, brought to you by Solicitor Advocates John McGovern and Mike Dailly. In episode 5 we examine the possibility of Scotland becoming a republic. Do we need The People's Republic of Scotland?

The Ordinary Elite is a new Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our fourth episode we discuss the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, 6 May 2023. Is this royal jamboree worth £250m of public money in a UK cost of living crisis? Should we care?

The Ordinary Elite is a new Scottish podcast series brought to you from Glasgow by John McGovern and Mike Dailly. Both are Solicitor Advocates - John a criminal defence practitioner and Mike a civil litigation practitioner and social justice campaigner. In our third episode we're joined by Annmarie Ward, the founder and CEO of the charity Faces & Voices of Recovery UK. FAVOR UK challenge the stigma of addiction and are campaigning for a proposed Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill in the Scottish Parliament. We asked Annmarie how did Scotland come to have the highest death rate from drug overdoses in Europe?