Please never explain

Pauline Hanson should take advice from the late Queen Elizabeth II ... never complain, never explain.

Ordinary Australians have had a gutful of our political class. They want the whole political-class structure burnt to the ground. Not our system, but the self-serving support our political class gives itself through the Uniparty and the traditional media.

Nowhere has this class been more active in defending itself than against the rise of One Nation.

Some time after Pauline Hanson uttered the infamous phrase ‘Please explain?’ to a journalist in response to a question about the meaning of the word ‘xenophobia’, she did the most Australian of things. She adopted it as a catchphrase.

It is such a useful phrase. See my full article in The Spectator Australia for some important ways it can be used: Please never explain.

Establishment attacks! Pauline explodes leftie brains

The forgotten people know that Pauline is being attacked because she is speaking truth to power.

Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the money with her roasting of Andrew Hastie and Anthony Albanese.

And then there is our money that is tied up in superannuation like the proverbial sword of Damocles hanging over our ability to own our own homes before we die.

A wise man once said to me, ‘You can’t know what you don’t know.’ The trouble with this truism is that the political elite think they know better than you. It’s a form of elite ‘you can’t know what I know’.

Well, guess what, your goose is cooked. Pauline’s ‘welcome to country love call’ is the reason your Martian brains are exploding.

My article in The Spectator Australia, Establishment attacks! Pauline explodes leftie brains.

Ben Roberts-Smith, Shah Wali Kot, honour, and the war Australians barely know

I wore my Blokes Advice Big Choky ‘I stand with BRS’ T-shirt to the local pub recently.

Aaron Patrick spoke at the Gallipoli Memorial Club’s inaugural Lone Pine Dinner. At the event, he signed copies of his book on Australia’s war in Afghanistan, and in particular, accounts of Ben Robert-Smith’s actions that earned him the Victoria Cross. The book is entitled The Last Battle. If you are a patriot like me, you’ll read it in one sitting. I wrote about it previously.

Aaron’s speech was not just about the book, but about the Battle of Shah Wali Kot in June 2010, and about what Australians do and do not know of the war in Afghanistan.

What follows is a written question-and-answer. The questions are as put to him. The answers are as he returned them.

The Last Battle: Australian SAS, Commandos and our Greatest Victory in our Longest War is published by Pan Macmillan. Patrick is chief writer at The Nightly and a former senior correspondent and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. He has written for the Washington Post and the New York Times.

You can read my article in The Spectator Australia, Ben Roberts-Smith, Shah Wali Kot, honour, and the war Australians barely know.