Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

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  • Sports

267 Articles
over 2 years ago
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Will the Commons' speaker succeed in preventing the rise of an even scruffier nation? – Aidan Smith

There are some who would argue I’ve been impersonating a journalist for years but to my mind I’ve only done it once –...

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over 2 years ago
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As long as Stairway to Heaven - what was Stefanos Tsitsipas doing in there? Andy Murray was right...

In 1956 Lew Hoad won three Grand Slams without recourse to a bathroom break. This might sound surprising when you con...

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over 2 years ago
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There's no comic relief in Stephen (ITV) - how could there be? - and Steve Coogan is completely u...

He comes with his own outsized plate to all-you-can-eat buffets. He surprises women by knowing what a vallance is. He...

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over 2 years ago
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Graham Alexander: Motherwell boss opens up on Scotland, career in lower leagues, upbringing and t...

When Graham Alexander scatters his mother’s ashes today, he will be thinking of the woman who was his quiet strength ...

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over 2 years ago
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No moshing but, finally, rock ’n’ roll is back and it made me feel like a teenager again – Aidan ...

It was the week Johnny Rotten was defeated in the courts, Abba turned themselves into a hologram and Charlie Watts di...

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over 2 years ago
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Vigil episode one reviewed: Explosive new BBC1 drama keeps us guessing

You wouldn’t catch me in a submarine. Not a yellow one with the Beatles as the cabaret, not one jam-packed with the T...

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over 2 years ago
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Modern tennis rivalries are nothing like McEnroe vs Borg or McEnroe vs his own shadow

Whisper it with all the politeness of a Wimbledon debenture-holder, but the end may be nigh. The last Grand Slam of 2...

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over 2 years ago
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Saturday Interview: Craig Burley on his missing teeth and not missing Celtic-Rangers rivalry

Craig Burley is worried about his dog when I catch up with him in Connecticut. The family pet came off worse in a scr...

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over 2 years ago
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Aidan Smith on TV: The Chair can do cerebral and silly and is hilarious at both

Maybe it’s because I never went to university that I love satires of campus life. Loved the novels by Tom Wolfe and D...

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over 2 years ago
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Why Boris 'Bullingdon Club' Johnson may not be best placed to persuade young people to get vaccin...

Bloody kids. Stubborn and self-centered. All they care about is themselves and the next party. They won’t do what’s a...

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over 2 years ago
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If the red button functioned, the chumminess, tweeness and wokeness wouldn't have been such an issue

It’s almost over, the final day is here, the finish-line is in sight and no more will I have to wake up with the BBC’...

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over 2 years ago
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I Am Victoria is a tough watch but Suranne Jones is a compelling presence

The other day, thinking about how samey multi-channel TV can be, I almost wrote the words “ … And every drama seems t...

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