Aidan Smith Journalist
  • Edinburgh
  • National World

Journalist with The Scotsman.

Published In

The Scotsman

Focus Areas

  • Sports

278 Articles
about 1 year ago
scotsman.com

Dominic Raab, the Tory Joe Pesci, is a snowflake compared to some of my old editors – Aidan Smith

The headline confirming the Deputy Prime Minister’s departure from government was a good one – “Raab C. Exit”. And fu...

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about 1 year ago
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Welcome to Hampden, let me show you to your seat - actually just take the whole row

I haven’t always been a sports reporter. Pipe down, all those hollering: “We didnae ken you ever were!” My first matc...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Dead Ringers (Prime Video), The Diplomat (Netflix), The Hunt for Raoul Moa...

From the distance of 30-odd years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe I’d like to tell you that I always reckoned Rachel...

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about 1 year ago
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Hearts can’t afford to not finish third, Hibs can’t afford more dismal derby failure

Honestly, the rabbit holes that open up, inviting you to step right inside, while reflecting on the craziness of Scot...

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about 1 year ago
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Lewis Capaldi may be the most stressed man in pop but he's also the funniest – Aidan Smith

My kids have followed the career of Lewis Capaldi avidly. This is remarkable considering how free and easy the young ...

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about 1 year ago
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Rodri, you plonker! Spain taught us all about gamesmanship and time-wasting

Did you see the TV football reporter Jane Lewis voxpopping the Tartan Army the other night? “And so!” declared the fa...

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about 1 year ago
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Oli Burke on stress of living up to hype, scary cloud of fog in head and 'loving every minute at ...

As the whole of Scotland basks in the afterglow of a sensational triumph, and as the Tartan Army celebrate unlikely g...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: The last of The Gold and a chance to meet the real coppers plus C4's rival...

There are many reasons to admire The Gold and one of them may seem trivial but it’s important to me. Nowhere in the B...

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about 1 year ago
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Bono must get Boris Johnson to put on record that Abba can't be blamed for Partygate – Aidan Smith

It’s August 1993 at Celtic Park and Bono is on the phone. He’s calling the White House from the stage and 50,000 rock...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith: Every avenue to improve Scottish football has been explored. Every cul-de-sac, too

Let’s get a room, says Michael Beale to Craig Levein. But the former Scotland manager is downstairs waiting in the ca...

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about 1 year ago
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Aidan Smith's TV week: Paula Yates remembered. 100 years of BBC Scotland. Who's up for crime on F...

Maybe because of the wild drama of her private life, and the tragedy which then followed, you might have forgotten ho...

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about 1 year ago
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It’s Gary Lineker 1, BBC 0 (and a red card for 'stop the boats') – Aidan Smith

I'm very interested in what footballers have to say for themselves. It's part of my job for this paper. And frankly t...

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