[Humphrey Hacker]

The problem with that particular tweet was that various media outlets exaggerated and embellished what he actually said.

He specifically criticised the use of language not dissimilar to that of 1930s Germany. That was surely a back reference to an actual holocaust survivor calling out the Home Secretary on the same point a few weeks previously?

www.independent.co.uk 

It wasn't his analogy, and the originator of the analogy seems to be uniquely qualified and entitled to make that comparison.

An alternative old fashioned view to the one which you articulate is that many people would prefer not to have political leaders making policy and using language that invites that kind of comparison.

I want political leaders to have policy. Yes the originator of the analogy is justified in making that comparison but I just felt that Linekar was inflaming an already delicate situation.

Anyway it's a contentious issue and I don't want to get dragged into any online slanging matches especially not at this time of year.