Mark Thomas " Check Up: Our NHS at 70 review " infectious wit and political fury
Traverse, EdinburghThe activist-comedian takes the temperature of universal healthcare and delivers a grave diagnosisMark Thomas is standing centre stage, feet splayed, shoulders feeling the rhythm. There is a lounge-jazz track tish-tishing away, and he's throwing in words on the offbeat: "staple … cut … staple". It's a funny, good-hearted caricature of Ahmed Ahmed, a consultant surgeon at Charing Cross and St Ma…