Then at the electronic library shots on his computer n. His gaze moving between them again and again.

If the Guardian is going to be running this story every month for the foreseeable, could it come up with some different Jobcentre-themed library shots?

As it would be many months before he could regenerate his public image, he had finally decided to do the interview off-camera; the studio on Earth could fake him in later with library shots.

And then the TV feed stopped, blipped to a blank black screen for a moment, before Syrian TV resumed with a library shot of a tree-filled, calm, and peaceful Damascus square.