Alan Turing

There can be few people in modern history who are individually responsible for saving as many lives as Alan Turing, even fewer who have played a more significant role in ending world war,and creating the digital, information, age.
So it's very fine day when a government listens to a ground swell of public opinion and makes an unconditional apology for the barbaric treatment the nation inflicted on one of it's greatest heroes.
I'm proud of Gordon Brown and Labour today and hope a posthumous knighthood for Turing and preservation of Bletchely Park as a national monument, aren't now too far away.