Same here, but then I looked up the author's Twitter, who's promoted the article two days ago: https://twitter.com/joetidy/status/1312654705781338112

Looks like this was really intended to be published. Weird, with all due respect.

Edit: And it's not been accidentally reverted to a draft - it already was this way two days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20201004160433/https://www.bbc.c...