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Having watched as my seriously ill husband was nursed back to health from near death, I absolutely agree with Anne Perkins (I knew all about the NHS\u2019s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic, 29 December). When we don\u2019t need the NHS, it is quietly working in the background. When we do, the care, love and support is beyond words and is priceless. How very fortunate we are. I take issue with the headline on your article (2025 was the year we grew tired of celebrity for celebrity\u2019s sake, 30 December). On 22\u00a0December, we had celebrity versions of Antiques Road Trip, The Chase, Escape to the Country, Mastermind and Masterchef on TV, while columns of\u00a0newsprint were earlier devoted to Celebrity Traitors. A ban on M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (Doctors Without Borders) working in Gaza would surely be beyond irony (Israel to ban dozens of aid agencies from Gaza as 10 nations warn about suffering, 30 December). Re units of measurement (Is it Twixmas or Twixtmas? And other style guide conundrums we have faced this year at the Guardian, 29 December), I noticed in a recent Guardian article that the size of the Mexican island of Esp\u00edritu Santo was compared to that of Manhattan. What is that in football pitches and\/or Waleses? Twixtmas or Twixmas? Why use\u00a0either? Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having watched as my seriously ill husband was nursed back to health from near death, I absolutely agree with Anne Perkins (I knew all about the NHS\u2019s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic, 29 December). When we don\u2019t need the NHS, it is quietly working in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1229,15976,14123],"class_list":{"0":"post-40271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-nhs","9":"tag-priceless","10":"tag-resource"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Christine Batley<\/strong>
Cromer, Norfolk<\/em><\/p>\n
Margaret Squires<\/strong>
St Andrews, Fife<\/em><\/p>\n
David Duell<\/strong>
Durham<\/em><\/p>\n
Elli Woollard<\/strong>
London<\/em><\/p>\n
John Stiles<\/strong>
Orpington, London<\/em><\/p>\n