Cautionary Tales episodes are released every other Friday, and so there will be one appearing again next week. Meanwhile, for Pushkin+ subscribers, I proudly present another Cautionary Tales “Short”.
Shownotes
The main sources on the Hartlepool elections were contemporary reports from The Times, The Guardian and the BBC.
On random promotions, see In Praise of Random Promotions and Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Cesare Garofalo The Peter principle revisited: A computational study Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications,
Volume 389, Issue 3, 2010.