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Salmond's gauleiter slur creates row too silly for words

As internet addicts know, there is an infallible rule called Godwin's Law.

This holds that in any online discussion some over-excited soul will end up accusing another over-excited soul of behaving like a Nazi.

Clearly, the resemblance between a bunch of ranting obsessives throwing insults around and a dignified parliament is slight. Heaven forbid. As Alex Salmond made clear, he had only used the word gauleiter in a very precise way when referring to a BBC chap.