DEPT. OF BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Gordon Brown apologizes - rather belatedly - to Alan Turing, at last addressing one of history's grave wrongs.

It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present. So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work, I am very proud to say: we're sorry. You deserved so much better.

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