The politics of humiliation

The different cases of Dutton and Joyce

I think I can reliably be described as the sort of person who doesn’t like Peter Dutton much, his politics, or his values, at least to the extent that any of those things about him are knowable from his public persona. And yet, I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of—was it empathy? —for him when he was interviewed by Sarah Ferguson on 730 last week.

Her fi…