Can Keir Starmer solve Labour's patriotism problem?
The party has been advised to embrace the Union flag if it wants to challenge the Tories in Red Wall seats
3 February 2021 • 1:00pm
Remember Godwin’s Law? Named after Mike Godwin, an American lawyer, it proposes that the longer any discussion on the internet continues, the more likely it is that, at some point, one of the parties will invoke the memory of Nazism. More recently, any such argument is deemed to have been lost by whoever mentions Adolf Hitler first.
Aside from being very bad news for Ken Livingstone, Godwin’s Law must now be regarded as largely obsolescent: the number of arguments on social media that don’t invoke the lessons of 1930s Germany early on must surely now be in a small minority. It’s the go-to clinching argument for anyone blessed with only a light smattering of historical knowledge and too much free time.