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JUST IN: 🇰🇵 Kim Jong Un wins North Korea's parliamentary election with 99.93% of the vote.

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

Kick US troops off UK bases.

PLANS TO CONVERT WATFORD CHURCH INTO MOSQUE REJECTED Watford Council has refused plans to convert a Grade II listed church into a mosque. The proposal would have turned the vacant Leavesden Road Baptist Church into a Muslim place of worship. Planning officers said the changes would cause “substantial harm” to the historic building, warning the proposals would remove or obscure much of the carefully designed and well-preserved interior. The application has now been rejected on heritage protection grounds. A small victory for Christianity.

The charge of the Polish Hussars at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 was the largest cavalry charge in history. I am painting this epic moment one painstaking detail at a time. This is exactly what I do - bring history to life in fine art.