You know, if you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll probably be aware that I — like a few other people — think very well of Alan Turing, one of the fathers of modern computer science.
Indeed, it’s also arguable that without him, the computer — as we understand it, today — wouldn’t exist.
The fact he was gay is something that I — with many others — see as practically incidental: but, at the time, a crime.
Unfortunately, the recently created petition asking for him to be pardoned … ?
Has been thrown out by Justice Minister, Lord McNally.
Personally … ?
I’ve said this before, and will say this again …
That is no way to treat a man who’s work helped shorten WW2 by anything up to two years.
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