Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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275 Articles
over 2 years ago
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The rest of Scottish football knows Ryan Porteous' game and which buttons to press

Three and a half years ago at Ibrox, Ryan Porteous announced himself to Scottish football and, although we have a ten...

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over 2 years ago
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Aidan Smith on TV: Murder Island can’t beat Blair and Brown for Machiavellian intrigue

I love when TV sends itself up. Alan Partridge’s desperate list of hopeless ideas for shows - Monkey Tennis etc - was...

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over 2 years ago
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Frank Gray: Leeds, Forest and Scotland great on his family dynasty ... and winning over Cloughie

It was, says Frank Gray, quite a moment. With big brother Eddie he’d returned to Glasgow to say final goodbyes to the...

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over 2 years ago
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Keir Starmer is trying to too hard to be edgy and not like Boris Johnson over a female Bond – Aid...

Even in the darkness, the boy could see his father’s distress. And even with a mouth stuffed with popcorn and Percy P...

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over 2 years ago
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Hearts and Hibs won't split the Old Firm but here's who'll finish highest among the Edinburgh clubs

It’s a slow-news-day story and, because it invariably appears at this time of year, a first-conker-of-autumn story. C...

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over 2 years ago
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It’s as if everyone’s opened up the backs of the Audis to display their secrets, almost like in a...

You know you’ve watched too many crime dramas when you become cocky about your ability to identify the Farrow & Ball ...

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over 2 years ago
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Why the return of the three-day week could help today's tech-obsessed youth be more like Emma Rad...

My kids hate Emma Raducanu. No, that’s wrong: they love her.

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over 2 years ago
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Vigil final episode review: A throat-grippingly thrilling finale

How worried are you about this rift with France? Might Boris Johnson’s “Donnez-moi un break” quip provoke all-out war...

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over 2 years ago
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Jack Ross and Scott Allan have been handcuffed together in a buddy movie - can they make the unli...

It’s another movie matinee afternoon down at the Easter Road multiplex and the local cineastes are anticipating a nam...

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over 2 years ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: He’s good face for comedy and a great nose for horrible crimes

Martin Clunes’ face would stretch the resources of the photofit departments of most police stations. I just don’t thi...

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over 2 years ago
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Darcy Graham: "I find it harder to talk about now because you almost forget how bad it was"

Darcy Graham, rugby whizz-kid, tells two stories illustrating the scrum-tight closeness which has seen his family thr...

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over 2 years ago
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Prince William: 'For my grandparents everything always had to be right but they loved it when thi...

Anyone who has ever had an appointment with royalty will have rehearsed and rehearsed and then suffered a sleepless n...

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