Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

Focus Areas

  • Sports

275 Articles
almost 2 years ago
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Scotland v Ukraine: The eyes of the world are on Scotland and they all want us to lose - Aidan Smith

It’s a word I tend to avoid because sportsmen can’t resist it. Every success, every event and very possibly every bow...

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almost 2 years ago
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There's so much mumbling between the pair that we're gagging for a love scene

She likes the “impermanence” of poetry read out aloud. The idea of words on the page that could remain in existence f...

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almost 2 years ago
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Why an iPod just might save my life and Apple must reverse its decision to stop making them – Aid...

Stop me if you think I’m getting too melodramatic about the death of the iPod: a crash on a lonely road, the emergenc...

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almost 2 years ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Why Winning Time is my drama of the year - and Mike Myers' comeback isn't ...

If you had told me my favourite television drama of 2022 was going to be about basketball I probably wouldn’t have be...

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about 2 years ago
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A tale of modern policing, where boxes are ticked but very little changes

First - “Evenin’ all” - telly coppers were good. Then they were likely to thump first and ask questions later but sti...

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about 2 years ago
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Ian Murray on managing Hibs: "If I was offered the job it would be impossible to turn down."

The last time I sat down with Ian Murray, to talk Hibernian and the enticements but also the perils of football manag...

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about 2 years ago
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Why are so many crime dramas shot on our coastline. Is it a Brexit thing?

What is it about Britain’s most southerly shores that makes them so irresistible to location managers for crime dramas?

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about 2 years ago
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Why Tories' plan to sell off Channel 4 could be motivated by revenge – Aidan Smith

It really makes me laugh. That Margaret Thatcher was the one who – bear with me and indeed bare with me – okayed pros...

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about 2 years ago
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Nicola Walker's the nation's sweetheart. Surely she can't hit another woman ...

I’m not in favour of women hitting women, obviously, but it doesn’t half leave its mark on a telly drama. The single ...

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about 2 years ago
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It must be easy to lose your nerve when you're cooking on TV and Ramsay's bellowing at you

Gordon Ramsay gazes down at the sparkling blue waters off Cornwall from a helicopter and then he jumps. And when he b...

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about 2 years ago
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Connect with a ball in a photo-op and a Prime Minister thinks he's connected with the great votin...

In the past he’s harrumphed about our rain, the “gloomy Scotch mist” and, before it came to pass, the idea that a Sco...

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about 2 years ago
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The new Bridgerton has only a sixth of the sex compared with last series. Brave or foolish?

Heaven forfend! Bridgerton has cut down on the sex. The story’s been everywhere that the Netflix smasheroo from lockd...

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