I think I’ll flag this up today. ”Proposals to introduce new legislation which would pardon gay men convicted under historical gross indecency laws will be brought forward ‘in due course’, the government has said.” While I am a bit wary of such retrospective legislating – imposing contemporary values on the past – I think this is somewhat overdue. The work done by Alan Turing and his colleagues not only helped end world war two, it also arguably lead to computers. I do not think history should record Turing as a criminal just because he loved men rather than women. He was a great man, a genius who deserves our gratitude and respect. Thus this is one of the (very) few things this government has done which has my support.