Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

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  • Sports

267 Articles
about 2 months ago
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Rishi Sunak's dishwasher revelations just made him seem like Alan Partridge – Aidan Smith

Keir Starmer’s ‘dad bod’ may prove to be less of a political problem than Rishi Sunak’s discussion of his domestic ch...

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about 2 months ago
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Aidan Smith on TV: Supersex, The Gentlemen, Mary & George and The Push: Murder on the Cliff

From a drug dealing toff to romps in the court of James I, elder brothers are pushed aside in three wildly different ...

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about 2 months ago
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Aidan Smith on TV: Supersex, The Gentlemen, Mary & George and The Push: Murder on the Cliff

From a drug dealing toff to romps in the court of James I, elder brothers are pushed aside in three wildly different ...

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about 2 months ago
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Celebrity Big Brother: Princess Kate is entitled to her privacy and let's hope her black sheep un...

Rumours, jokes and ridiculous conspiracy theories about Princess of Wales abound. Let’s hope she is able to laugh abo...

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about 2 months ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: The Jury: Murder Trial (Channel 4), Prisoner (BBC4), Darren McGarvey: the ...

Aagh, you silly old goat! You’ve given the game away! This is my reaction as Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial nears...

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2 months ago
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School smartphone crackdown: Tory and SNP gesture politics isn't going to end children's obsessio...

Enforcing a smartphone ban in schools will be a tough, perhaps even impossible, job

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2 months ago
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Aidan Smith: VAR is bad but clubs can't criticise it selectively when it suits

Well, did they or didn’t they? We need to know, we should be told …

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2 months ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Breathtaking (ITV), The Way (BBC1), Martin Compston's Norwegian Fling (BBC2)

It’s all a bit of a blur now. You never want to forget what it was like, and you won’t, but at the same you probably ...

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2 months ago
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Hue and Cry's Pat and Greg Kane on why they'd rather make beautiful music than feud

After decades of working together punctuated by legendary clashes, peace has broken out between the Kane brothers, wh...

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2 months ago
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Book review: Green Dot, by Madeleine Gray

Madeleine Gray’s debut novel about a lesbian who falls for a man is full of sardonic observations and pop culture ref...

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2 months ago
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Aidan Smith: A lament for Steve Wright and the fond refrain of old-school DJ-ing: 'Good evening, ...

As soon as the sad news came through, I knew a photograph would pop up somewhere: Britain’s top discotheque being gra...

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2 months ago
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TV review: Romcoms battling may be a contradition in terms but Alice & Jack is superior to One Day

Aidan Smith casts his eye over the week’s television. Alice & Jack (C4), Kin (BBC1, The New Look (Apple TV+), Too Goo...

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