Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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322 Articles
6 months
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Penny Mordaunt, the Carry On Conservative, is surely the Commons' funniest MP – Aidan Smith

Penny Mordaunt is known for her risqué sense of humour – and for ribbing the SNP

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6 months
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Scotland's Euro 2024 songsmiths must get cracking - let's have a (good) tune for Germany

Impact can be muted on the pitch – but let’s make a summer hit off it

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6 months
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Passions: Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure

I play For Your Pleasure on the anniversary of when I first bought it

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6 months
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Broadcaster Charlie Webster on the legacy of childhood trauma: 'I didn’t think I was valued and s...

Sports broadcaster, podcaster and campaigner Charlie Webster has a glittering CV of achievement, including multiple m...

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6 months
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Aidan Smith's TV week: A Man in Full (Netflix), Shardlake (Disney+), The Piano (Channel 4)

Jeff Daniels leans into the Trumpian qualities of Charlie Croker in A Man in Full, but the drama falls short of its s...

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6 months
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Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage are the new trainer-trashing hooligans – Aidan Smith

Trendy trainers are getting an image problem as high-profile politicians keep wearing them

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6 months
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Aidan Smith: Scottish football Pyramid is a farce but who can blame Highland teams if they want t...

Buckie Thistle fiasco is just another example that the SFA’s boast about having a super-duper Pyramid set-up doesn’t ...

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Aidan Smith's TV week: Red Eye (ITV1), The Red King (Alibi), Glitter: the Popstar Paedophile (ITV1)

With the jeopardy vibes of 70s disaster movies, I keep waiting for Red Eye’s Airplane! moment – alas, it doesn’t come

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6 months
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Red Eye (ITV1), The Red King (Alibi), Glitter: the Popstar Paedophile (ITV1)

With the jeopardy vibes of 70s disaster movies, I keep waiting for Red Eye’s Airplane! moment – alas, it doesn’t come

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6 months
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Missing link between Sydney Sweeney and Nicola Sturgeon revealed by their detractors – Aidan Smith

Criticism of actor Sydney Sweeney and Nicola Sturgeon’s looks doesn’t impress Aidan Smith

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7 months
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Aidan Smith: Cup replays were usually gruelling, often agonising – and magic

In Scotland we gave up extra ties without a whimper, and now it’s sad to see English football is getting rid of them ...

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Aidan Smith's TV week: Franklin (Apple TV+), The Regime (Sky Atlantic), Fallout (Prime Video), Ra...

Aidan Smith casts his eye over the week’s TV

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