Good, and not before time. I think Gordon Brown and/or his advisers were wrong and guilty of a rather pointless cowardice here. Would it have been beyond them to admit that the law at the time was mistaken? We owe so much to Alan Turing, and an apology seems to me getting off cheap.
We were a sanctimonious, unforgiving lot back in those days, weren't we? The paradox is that these were the very "qualities" that helped to build the Empire. We are probably less hypocritical today than we were in the past, but we are also a country of diminishing consequence!
Good, and not before time.
ReplyDeleteI think Gordon Brown and/or his advisers were wrong and guilty of a rather pointless cowardice here. Would it have been beyond them to admit that the law at the time was mistaken? We owe so much to Alan Turing, and an apology seems to me getting off cheap.
We were a sanctimonious, unforgiving lot back in those days, weren't we? The paradox is that these were the very "qualities" that helped to build the Empire. We are probably less hypocritical today than we were in the past, but we are also a country of diminishing consequence!
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