The Ordinary Elite

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 5th episode in Season 2, we discuss criminal justice in Scotland - including the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 (in force from 1 April) and the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill. We also reflect on a certain MSP's gripe that the heavily subsidised food in the Parliament's restaurant and cafe isn't good enough.

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 4th episode in Season 2, we are joined by Father Jim Lawlor of the Immaculate Conception parish in Glasgow's Maryhill. The war in Gaza has now been ongoing since 7 October 2023, with no end in sight. Over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed with over 69,000 people wounded. We discuss with Fr. Jim the need for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

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 3rd episode in Season 2, we are joined by the former MSP and social justice campaigner Neil Findlay. Is Holyrood and Westminster broken and if so who will fix them? We discuss with Neil the desire of the many millions of people across Scotland and the UK to see solutions to the myriad of social, health, housing, economic and governance problems now facing us. Neil's books are available at http://www.neilfindlaybooks.com

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 2nd episode in Season 2, we ask what have we learned from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry sitting in Edinburgh over the last three weeks? We consider the questions asked and the key evidence given in relation to the handling of the pandemic in Scotland.

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 first episode of 2024, we examine the week in Scottish & UK politics with a focus on the Post Office scandal. 3,500 sub-postmasters and mistresses wrongly accused of fraud and theft due to a faulty computer system over many years; 700 prosecutions; 236 people imprisoned - and so far few people have yet to have their convictions overturned or receive full financial redress.

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 25th episode, we provide an omnibus hour long discussion looking back at 2023 in terms of Scottish and UK politics; the highs, the lows, the good, the bad, the feckless, the reckless, the fickle and the downright incredulous. Pour yourself a glass, put your feet up and join us for a review of the year that was 2023!

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 24th 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 last spoke to Annmarie in April this year and asked her what progress had been made to address the fact Scotland has the highest death rate from drug overdoses in Europe?

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 23rd episode, we talk with Colin McInnes, the founder of Homeless Project Scotland. This is a Glasgow charity providing a range of social welfare services including a nightly soup kitchen which feeds 310 people each day, providing 55,000 hot meals each week. Last week the Scottish Parliament declined to declare a housing and homelessness emergency in Scotland - despite a 15% rise in homeless applications, more rough sleeping and almost 10,000 children/young persons in temporary accommodation - the highest since records began in 2002. We discuss these and other homeless issues facing Glasgow with Colin.

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 22nd episode, we discuss the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Michael Matheson MSP's personal statement given to the Scottish Parliament on his iPad mobile expenses claim of almost £11,000. For some 11 months, the claim was said to be for purely legitimate parliamentary business when Mr Matheson was on a family holiday in Morocco last December. Yesterday he admitted that was not true. Should he stay or should he go as Health Secretary?

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 21st episode, we talk with Stephen Sheal, Director of Government Affairs and Policy at the Net Zero Technology Centre in Aberdeen. Scotland is committed to reaching net zero in carbon emissions by 2045. We've already reduced emissions by 49% since 1990, but the final journey to 100% will be much harder to reach. We discuss the choices available to governments and individual citizens and the impact they may have on our day to day life in achieving net zero.