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Spectator speedruns a Blair resurrection take, immediately gets ratio'd
The Spectator publishes a genuinely unhinged opinion piece suggesting Tony Blair should return to power via by-election or House of Lords appointment, completely tone-deaf to how thoroughly detested he is by basically everyone. The comments section immediately becomes a warzone of seething Brits calling for his imprisonment and describing him in increasingly creative terms of disgust. Peak "out-of-touch magazine exec posts bait to generate engagement" energy, and it absolutely worked—just not in the way they intended.