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Jonathan Maitland

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The strange endurance of Dr Feelgood

At the recent West End run of the play about Wilko Johnson, the guitarist and co-founder of 70s rockers Dr Feelgood, one exchange always got a big...

yesterday 10

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Jonathan Maitland

What Cambridge should have learned from the Milli Vanilli fiasco

With hindsight, Milli Vanilli’s 1989 worldwide smash hit ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ should have been called ‘Actually, It Isn’t True at...

19.08.2026 10

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Jonathan Maitland

Sport / Fantasy football is good for you – and your kids

It’s 3.19 am and my brain cells are ricocheting. Nothing to do with the usual sleep-wreckers of money, sex or work but this: how to fit Antoine...

15.08.2026 30

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Jonathan Maitland

Fantasy football is good for you – and your kids

It’s 3.19 am and my brain cells are ricocheting. Nothing to do with the usual sleep-wreckers of money, sex or work but this: how to fit Antoine...

15.08.2026 30

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Jonathan Maitland

There is nothing worse than a bad radio advert

Hell, I have come to realise, may not be other people, but repeated, everlasting exposure to 30-second radio adverts featuring one or more of the...

13.07.2026 20

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Jonathan Maitland

Cost-cutting / Six ways the BBC could save money

I’m unlikely to be invited to dinner at BBC director general Matt Brittin’s any time soon but judging by the cuts he has announced, it would be...

28.06.2026 20

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Jonathan Maitland

Cost-cutting / Six ways the BBC could save money

I’m unlikely to be invited to dinner at BBC Director General Matt Brittin’s any time soon but judging by the cuts he has announced, it would be...

27.06.2026 20

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Jonathan Maitland

Six ways the BBC could save money

I’m unlikely to be invited to dinner at BBC Director General Matt Brittin’s any time soon but judging by the cuts he has announced, it would be...

27.06.2026 30

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Jonathan Maitland

To succeed at the BBC, Matt Brittin must learn to be hated

So farewell then Tim Davie with your spotless white trainers, on-message management speak and complete lack of journalistic nous. And hello Matt...

24.03.2026 40

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Jonathan Maitland

Unknown guest / Why was this stranger in my friend’s house?

13.01.2026 50

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Jonathan Maitland

Obscenely ill-judged / The film Nuremberg is almost unforgivable

18.11.2025 50

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Jonathan Maitland