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I’ve lived in London a long time; long enough that I’m aware I scarcely even register loud impacts in the street. But I like to think that if a mortar exploded 100 yards away, I’d still be able to allow myself a small flinch. Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, on the other hand, has clearly become acclimatised to a very different urban environment. The second camera angle shows that, while the UN Sec-Gen ducks, wide-eyed, in understandable terror, al-Maliki barely blinks. He may as well wearily hold up a small sign saying, “Welcome to my fucking world”.

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Al-Maliki is hanging onto power by a fingernail, threatening to double-cross his Sadrist support in the cabinet and manufacture scandals so as to jail them while he tries to keep together a coalition.

But none of it is working for him. I'll bet good money he'll be in exile in London before the year is out.