I’m sort of dubious about politicians’ ability to say sorry for anything except their own mistakes but I guess Gordon Brown’s apology regarding the treatment of Alan Turing is welcome. http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

Having just been to the Greenbelt Festival, a christian environment in which gays get a better hearing than most, and having heard some of what Bishop Gene Robinson had to say I am more aware than usual of appalling treatment gays have (and still do in too many environments) receive.

On a personal note, I’m old enough to remember some of the abuses of the 70’s (but no earlier!) and I’m only one generation removed from Turing. My old prof from university days did at one time share an office with Alan Turing - indeed it was joked round the department that was the more likely the cause of his suicide. Maybe not in great taste, but it was the 70’s.