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This Edinburgh Fringe comedian is headed for stardom

Plus: healthcare, Liz Truss and chess lessons

Dr Phil Hammond, a hilarious and wildly successful comedian whose career is built on the ruins of the NHS, and his unthreatening sidekick Dame Clare Gerada, at the Edinburgh Fringe
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    theSpace@Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh

  • Nerine Skinner: The Exorcism of Liz Truss; Kevin James Doyle: After Endgame

    Just the Tonic at the Caves, Edinburgh

  • Finlay Christie: I Deserve This

    Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh

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