When silence speaks louder: Clyde Munro, media vanishing acts, and the real lives caught in between

Whatever the reality of events at Clyde Munro, yesterday's claims and counter-claims must have been dreadful to read if your livelihood depends on continued employment or a clinical contract there, even before we consider the effect on patients and suppliers.

Social media is as much as reality of our lives as the television, and there's no point in bitching, moaning or whining about rubbish programming or irresponsible messaging.

We have to learn to live with it, and use the "on/off" button ourselves.

I'm not at all comfortable with with the Trump/Musk/Zuckerberg approach to freedom of speech, and yet felt manipulated by the media reports that mysteriously vanished overnight from Monday to Tuesday.

It's military juntas and the despotic heads of nations, NGOs and businesses that do that - not the owners of a Scottish dental group.

So who did pull the plug on the media?

Here's my wish this morning - that the majority of the good people who work at Clyde Munro are secure in their jobs and don't have to spend Easter worrying about that.

That's real people we are talking about.

And now for something completely different

On a lighter note - after disembarking from my ferry in Dublin at 19:30 last night I found myself stuck on the M50 with 4 lanes of traffic, whilst a row of police cars shepherded us at 5 mph - waiting for a man riding a horse bareback to exit the motorway via the next slip road.

Welcome to Ireland.