Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

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  • Sports

267 Articles
6 months ago
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Aidan Smith: No more office romances? It'll be the end of civilisation as we know it

I may have said this before. I’m sure I’ll say it again, when the next relationships survey appears: thank goodness I...

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6 months ago
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This Rugby World Cup has been the best but it's about to be diminished - Aidan Smith

I’d like to blame the mushroom soup. This was the “catering” in Murrayfield’s Bill McLaren Suite for the press corps ...

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6 months ago
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Passions: Mark Ellen and David Hepworth are the groovy, with-it big brothers I never had

The “inkies” music press veterans are full of tales and recommendations

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7 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Why I don't want Scotland to qualify for the Euros tonight

Okay, here’s what I want from Oslo tonight, which I’m guessing is different from what you want. You probably would li...

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7 months ago
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Just Stop Oil’s protests are even annoying people who agree with them about climate change – Aida...

It's rich of the Tories to call Just Stop Oil ‘clowns’ when they gave us Boris Johnson and Liz Truss but the proteste...

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7 months ago
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Big Brother: I can't criticise reality TV wannabes because I've been one – Aidan Smith

When the conversation turned to porn film dialogue in The Salon, Aidan Smith knew his time in the reality TV show wou...

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7 months ago
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Aidan Smith: In the struggle of man vs machine, maybe intimidating Ibrox can curb AI

You never forget your first time. Your Ibrox initiation. The Big Hoose for an away fan is a rite of passage. Everyone...

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7 months ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: The Long Shadow (ITV), Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins (C4), Who Killed Jill...

Normally the chrome bumpers, churning glam-rock chords and diagonally-striped kipper ties would stir woozy feelings o...

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7 months ago
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Rugby World Cup: Reviewed, refined, rewritten loads of times, yet still as clear as mud - Aidan S...

The fastest boy in the Broughton High School 2nd XV was Kenny Armstrong. The rest of us simply gave him the ball and ...

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7 months ago
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Aidan Smith: Yes, we lost, but when was the last time our football and rugby teams were both so v...

We insisted it wasn’t important, that it no longer bothered us. Yes, the fixture used to be yer actual raison d’etre ...

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8 months ago
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The world needs critics, not influencers with an eye out for freebies – Aidan Smith

As some influencers allow themselves to become part of the film industry’s advertising department, we need critics to...

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8 months ago
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Maybe Rishi Sunak has an ulterior motive behind supporters bus' climbdown - Aidan Smith

Is Rishi Sunak a football fan? I mean, he claims to support Southampton, having been born in the city, but he doesn’t...

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