
Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History
From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 5/13/2022

From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 5/13/2022
What happens when a monkey gets elected mayor? Well, not really a monkey, but a monkey mascot for a town’s football games. Tim Harford joins This Day in Esoteric Political History to discuss a weird moment from UK history in 2002, when the northeastern English town of Hartlepool was gearing…