There are few figures from history we can say really did do right by the world. Alan Turing, the Second World War Enigma code breaker, is one of those few. And the UK has done him wrong. Having served his country with such genius, Turing was convicted in 1952 for ‘gross indecency’ and sentenced to chemical castration – the forced injection of female hormones. For … Continue reading Alan Turing: Time for a hero without conviction