"But you know what? While I can't defend Blair, I'm tired of all the mea culpas and repudiations of the era. In my opinion, Britpop was a gift, a welcome resurgence of English songcraft, and London's embrace of welcome trends—gastropubs, smart tailoring, modernist industrial design—pre-dated and prefigured ours. More so than the Swinging London Mark I of the Beatles and Stones, the Cool Britannia era was the time when Britain woke up from its beans-on-toast dreariness, when it truly, finally stopped being a postwar country."
David Kamp revisits his 1997 profile of London in Vanity Fair.
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