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Winston Churchill had his cakes and ate them

A new exhibition from the National Trust shows how Britain’s greatest Prime Minister would celebrate his birthday with some massive cakes

It seems that Instagram is awash with lavishness. Weddings, fast cars, fancy holidays, it’s all a race to the bottom (or perhaps to the top?) of excess. One such recent phenomenon that has been plaguing my feed has been over the top birthday cakes — layer upon layer of decadence, agonising displays of excess, all for the…

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