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An Oxford based literary agency & editorial consultancy headed up by Jemima Hunt. We represent bestselling authors. We launch debut authors.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
No
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#WilliamKeegan @theobserveruk.bsky.social 4.8.24

'We have a Labour government with a huge majority cutting back on the public-sector investment projects it is supposed to nurture. Reeves says “If we can’t afford it, we can’t do it.” John Maynard Keynes observed “Anything we can do we can afford.”'
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
yup
October 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
As the saying goes in Brazil, 'The bus will go when the people are on it.'
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
No.
October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
'A week or so before
there'd been a thunderstorm...One tower had
a widening zigzag crack all the way down.
It was a miracle. The priest's house right next door
had been struck, too, and his brass bed
... galvanized black.
Graças a deus --- he'd been in Belém.'

'Santarém' Elizabeth Bishop
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Agree.
October 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Write to Wes Streeting. I do.
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Sad
October 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
CATASTROPHIC! I keep writing to government.
October 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Is it ideological?
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What's going on?
October 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
How about late night libraries
October 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We need to legislate and protect children's rights.
October 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Brilliant. Not unlike 'That's so Brexit.'
September 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
FANTASTIC NEWS!
September 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yup. Who's advising him?
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Rubbish. It's brilliant TV.
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM