A monkey puzzle for primates and peers | Letters
I was puzzled by the Guardian print-edition headline (19 December) that said “Apes recognise peers they haven’t seen for years”. I can’t speak for other peers, but I don’t think I have met any apes since I went to London zoo many decades ago. And I certainly wouldn’t recognise any of them again. Do the apes in the zoo study their visitors that closely?
William Wallace
Liberal Democrat, House of Lords
While a review of all classical music throughout the whole of the UK for a whole year cannot include everything, I was surprised that Andrew Clements didn’t mention Scottish Opera’s Il Trittico last spring (Bittersweet symphonies: UK classical music 2023 in review, 14 December). Each of the three productions was remarkable.
Cliodhna Dempsey
Edinburgh
“Truly outstanding piano recitals were few and far between,” writes Andrew Clements. Perhaps he missed Paul Lewis’s magisterial recitals of Schubert Piano Sonatas. I was privileged to attend three – the performances were profound and moving, and full of new meaning.
Margaret Jacobi
Birmingham
Peter Bone has claimed that 86.8% of the electorate didn’t want to remove him from office (Report, 19 December). Yes, but 60% of that same electorate didn’t want him as their MP in the first place.
Robin Sutton
Bualadubh, South Uist
“A woman’s work is never done … at Christmas”, says the headline on Chloë Hamilton’s article in your print edition (Journal, 20 December). How true! So why does Father Christmas continue to get all the credit?
Jan Pahl
Canterbury
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