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Glorious and triumphant — Iain Macleod on Winston Churchill’s funeral

Today marks fifty years since the funeral of Winston Churchill. In the 5 February 1965 edition of The Spectator, editor Iain Macleod wrote under the pen name Quoodle about the occasion.  There has never been such a funeral service I before. There will never be again. It was splendid and solemn, but it was also glorious and triumphant. There