‘They are just as you hope they’d be,’ said my colleague Damian Thompson midway through our readers’ tea party today. I knew what he meant: we were actually getting to meet the people we work for, the people we imagine when we’re commissioning or writing stories. You build up a fairly clear idea what they’re like – and what they’re not like. There’s no typical age: today we welcomed readers from 25 to 85. They come from a wide range of backgrounds; architects, students, lawyers, priests, financiers.
And from all over the country: I met subscribers who drove down from Oldham and even Glasgow to join us today. Taki was there, as was Andrew Neil, Mary (as in ‘Dear Mary’) Killen and those of us lucky enough to work in 22 Old Queen St. The weather was blissful, and the food was even better – kindly laid on by our friends at the Belgraves Hotel.
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