Pauline Hanson should have been allowed to tell Mehreen Faruqi to “pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan”. That is an awkward sentence for a Pakistani migrant to write, particularly about Hanson, whose political career has been one extended audition for the role of “Most Clichéd Racist”. But free speech should not be a prize awarded after a character test. Now, when I say she should have been “allowed” to say what she said, that does not mean “applauded”.