Star columnist Peter Rhodes discusses the hottest topics from garden bulbs to Hitler's diet

Hitler was a vegetarian. Therefore, vegetarians are Nazis. Agreed? Of course not. The above is an example of what academics call Reductio ad Hitlerum, Latin for "reduction to Hitler," or playing the Nazi card.

Put simply, it means that if, for example, you're discussing modern politics and start dragging the Nazis into the debate, you've probably lost the argument. This was demonstrated by the Attorney General Lord Hermer who said that pressure for........

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