Alan Turing to have his picture on the £50 note

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  1. Bowerbird

    Bowerbird Well-Known Member

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    It is about time! If this man had not been persecuted we would not have lost him so young. Who knows what that brilliant mind would have accomplished?

    https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019...ear-on-50-pound-bank-of-england-note/11311702
     
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    The irony is he should be a reminder that government can sometimes get it very wrong with excessive laws curtailing individual freedoms and can result in terrible consequences for individuals.
    Something that falls on deaf ears these days in the UK.
     
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