It certainly was in 2005 :)

Certainly in his most recent two-parter, Davros has had a bit of flexibility to be apolitical. But in his classic series persona, Davros is a really intense Hitler allegory. He's scientific, and deploys militant rationalism to achieve his goals - that's how the Daleks end up created, in a warped attempt to save the…

Actually, Doctor Who's been pretty political ever since it came back. Every episode where there's a race whose planet was destroyed in the Time War, including Rose and The Unquiet Dead, has done what this episode did but in a much more subtle way. Russell T's "massive weapons of destruction" quip in World War Three…