A tortured genius
Computer pioneer Alan Turing: Gordon Brown has apologised for the 'appalling' way he was punished for being gay
Usually, the Mail can see little value in politicians apologising for the misdeeds of the past.
It smacks of posturing and gesture politics and, besides, it is absurd to apply the morals of one age to those of another.
But we make an exception for Gordon Brown's posthumous apology to Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for the 'appalling' way he was punished for being gay.
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Without Mr Turing's brilliance, thousands more lives would have been lost fighting the Nazis.
The real tragedy is that the suicide of this tortured man denied peacetime Britain's nascent computer industry of his genius.
Who knows what other great things he could have achieved?
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