Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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The Scotsman

Focus Areas

  • Sports

278 Articles
18 days ago
scotsman.com

Aidan Smith's TV week: Red Eye (ITV1), The Red King (Alibi), Glitter: the Popstar Paedophile (ITV1)

With the jeopardy vibes of 70s disaster movies, I keep waiting for Red Eye’s Airplane! moment – alas, it doesn’t come

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21 days ago
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Missing link between Sydney Sweeney and Nicola Sturgeon revealed by their detractors – Aidan Smith

Criticism of actor Sydney Sweeney and Nicola Sturgeon’s looks doesn’t impress Aidan Smith

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23 days ago
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Aidan Smith: Cup replays were usually gruelling, often agonising – and magic

In Scotland we gave up extra ties without a whimper, and now it’s sad to see English football is getting rid of them ...

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about 1 month ago
scotsman.com

Aidan Smith's TV week: Franklin (Apple TV+), The Regime (Sky Atlantic), Fallout (Prime Video), Ra...

Aidan Smith casts his eye over the week’s TV

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about 1 month ago
scotsman.com

Roxy Music could teach today's musicians how to write songs with meaning – Aidan Smith

Bryan Ferry took fans to a place ‘far beyond the pale horizon’. Today’s acts are less weird, less daring and much mor...

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about 1 month ago
scotsman.com

Passions: My favourite match programmes are for postponed games

I want the programme to a Dundee-Hibs ‘ghost game’ I travelled to with Dad

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about 1 month ago
scotsman.com

Aidan Smith: Scotland's low block? Sounds like constipation, and it was

Exactly an hour before Scotland kicked off against Northern Ireland on Tuesday night, Michael Portillo was travelogue...

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about 2 months ago
scotsman.com

Aidan Smith on TV: With 3 Body Problem, suddenly, physics is sexy

Expect your brain to ache following dystopian 3 Body Problem, while Allison Janney and Kristen Wiig can’t save dull P...

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about 2 months ago
scotsman.com

Glastonbury line-up suggests rock is dead. Who's even heard of SZA (Sunak's Zorbing Atrocity)? – ...

Aidan Smith finds himself in the shoes of an elderly 1970s judge asking the court: “What is a… Sex Pistol?”

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about 2 months ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Manhunt (Apple TV+), Love Rat (Channel 5), The Dry (ITVX), Un Amore (Sky A...

It’s been quite a while. I don’t suppose I’ve thought about the American Civil War since those cards which came free ...

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2 months ago
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Passions: I’m only working for The Scotsman because I can’t work for Mad

The US magazine introduced me to satire and the delights of mischief

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2 months ago
scotsman.com

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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