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They don’t make men like Erroll Prior-Palmer any more

10 October 2026 9:00 am

An archetypal figure of his time, the Major-General never sought – or gained – popularity, though the decisions he took on D-Day saved many comrades’ lives

The nerdy obsessive who became the world’s richest man

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Seen by fellow pupils as an obnoxious loner, Bill Gates was a rebellious teenager, challenging his teachers and ‘at war’ with his parents

Expelled from Africa’s Eden

26 August 2023 9:00 am

Lucy Fulford never fully explains how this community was so easily scapegoated, nor why Idi Amin’s decree caused such jubilation across East Africa at the time