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
