It only affects the citizen when the knock comes to that citizen’s door. People in the Third Reich thought what’s happening to the Jews would never happen to them, but finally the knock came. You cannot allow bad practices to become embedded in your democratic processes.

Frank Flannery invoking Godwin’s Law while discussing parliamentary privilege. In his analogy, Denis O’Brien is one of the six million Jewish people exterminated during the Holocaust, in what was the worst act of industrialised genocide that the world had ever seen. The same Denis O’Brien who is an intensely litigious multi-billionaire and media mogul. So the perfect analogy really.