Even in this strange age of regime change, jihad and war upon fear, there is something incongruous about running the gauntlet of an airport-style metal detector and wand-frisk to enter a church. It wasn't even for Mass. The occasion that

A sculpture named after Saddam Hussein's first wife and made of cardboard boxes, adhesive tape and an oil drum has been burnt down in a London park. "Sajida Talfah" by artist Graham Hudson, had been on display in Holland Park