Graydon Carter, the wispy-haired Canadian journalist and famed party host, has always had a talent for bringing the literati and the glitterati together. He did so again on Tuesday evening with a cocktail party at Langan’s to launch The London List, his new selection of 25 young Londoners “lighting up the scene”.
Is Carter, who edited Vanity Fair magazine when it was good and now runs media start-up Air Mail, trying to make London swing again? Perhaps, but he says it’s nothing to do with Keir Starmer. Tony Blair championed the “Cool Britannia” wave in 1997 when he won a landslide election victory and invited celebs like Noel Gallagher for champagne in No 10. Dour Starmer is unlikely to repeat it.
