Nigeria, July 19 -- She has been a remarkable survivor in the cutting, remorseless field of politics. Mocked for her incoherence, her lack of erudition, and dismissed as a garden variety racist, Pauline Hanson of the One Nation Party now boasts a degree of popularity that has eclipsed her opponents. As with other countries, Australia is seemingly experimenting with the "I-am-fed-up" school of political representation, making any figure supposedly anti-political most attractive.



It is that degree of appeal that risks wearing off. Hanson, hoping to draw inspiration from foreign sources of resentment (domestic sources are evidently not enough) thought it wise to conduct what she amusingly called a "fact finding" tour of the United Kingd...