Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill once famously remarked that 'buggers can't be choosers', so it is perhaps fitting that on the fortieth anniversary of his funeral, something about him should come on the back of a posting about 'Brokeback Mountain'.

How Ridiculous once had the great honour to study Sir Winston's papers at Churchill College, Cambridge.

Much, of course, has been and always will be written about his life up to and during his Premierships both in war and peace.

Yet, for How Ridiculous, the greatness of the man was most visible in his years after 1955 and how he responded to his decline. Those years have been brilliantly recorded in 'Long Sunset', the memoirs of Sir Winston's last Private Secretary.

The other thing about WSC How Ridiculous always recalls is that he was descended from Spencer stock and that one of his distant relations came third in the Greatest Briton poll - and that one of his grandsons happened to be one of that person's archest critics.