Someone's just gone and written "I'm sorry" there.
Well, well, well. Mr Brown (Gordon, in this case) has issued the apology we were talking about the other day. According to the BBC, he agrees that the treatment meted out to Turing as a result of his homosexuality was - though legal - "utterly unfair".
A spokesperson for Outrage! has, quite reasonably, pointed out that if you're going to apologise to Turing you should apologise to the 100,000 less famous Britons who suffered similarly. And, though he doesn't mention it, presumably also to Oscar Wilde who is rather more famous.
The full text of the apology can be read in the Telegraph. It does make a passing mention of the many others similarly convicted, but stops short of apologising to all.
On balance, I think I like what Brown has written. Perhaps I should have signed that petition.
A spokesperson for Outrage! has, quite reasonably, pointed out that if you're going to apologise to Turing you should apologise to the 100,000 less famous Britons who suffered similarly. And, though he doesn't mention it, presumably also to Oscar Wilde who is rather more famous.
The full text of the apology can be read in the Telegraph. It does make a passing mention of the many others similarly convicted, but stops short of apologising to all.
On balance, I think I like what Brown has written. Perhaps I should have signed that petition.