From The Telegraph: "Alan Turing, the brilliant wartime codebreaker, has been granted a posthumous pardon by the Queen for his criminal conviction for homosexuality.
Dr Turing, who helped Britain to win World War II, killed himself after receiving the conviction in 1952. He has now been granted a pardon under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy after a high-profile campaign supported by tens of thousands of people including Professor Stephen Hawking." There's always something a bit silly about these stories. You know, like the Pope forgiving Galileo. How far back do you go? But what I find particularly odd about this story is why didn't they pardon *everyone* who was convicted of being a homosexual? Why single out the celebrity?
