Aidan Smith Journalist
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  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

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296 Articles
over 2 years ago
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Japan, the absolute spoilsports, then - whoosh - Hogg breaks the record

In the build-up to this game there were vivid words from Fraser Brown as he recalled the moment he realised the overh...

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over 2 years ago
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Something else The Tower has going for it is Emmett J. Scanlan as the rottenest, most worm-infest...

It’s a brave show which muscles in on Line of Duty territory and maybe a foolish one which does so without thunderous...

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over 2 years ago
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Our critic and his injured cocker spaniel give their verdict on the first day of DogTV – Aidan Smith

My wife says she can still hear the sickening thud and that she’ll never forgive herself.

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over 2 years ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Showtrial goes into the murky, murderous depths again, but thankfully not ...

BBC1’s new Sunday nighter Showtrial is billed “from the makers of Vigil” and I’m thinking, oh no, they wouldn’t, woul...

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over 2 years ago
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Why Fergie should be turning the hairdryer on Beckham again – Aidan Smith

When David Beckham scored his famous goal from the halfway line, a former toolmaker and trade union shop steward from...

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over 2 years ago
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Sean Lamont: "I always said I would never officially retire from Scotland and I haven't"

This is a good day for a chat with Sean Lamont because he’s stuck at home in Glasgow. “I don’t have the car – it’s at...

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over 2 years ago
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Few musical movements were silliier than New Romantic and no band of that ilk were sillier than S...

I pity the youth of today, with fewer pop groups to get tribal about.

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over 2 years ago
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Billy Connolly's Windswept & Interesting book review: Big Yin has grim tales but this is no miser...

Comedians like to tell stories about how acting the clown in childhood was a defence mechanism to distract and deter ...

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over 2 years ago
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Billy Connolly book reviewed: Darkness and laughs in Big Yin's new memoir

Comedians like to tell stories about how acting the clown in childhood was a defence mechanism to distract and deter ...

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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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