Originally Posted by
sidevalve
How should he best be honoured posthumously..?
It would seem there are already some monuments to Turing, especially in Manchester (Blue Plaques etc), but no national one, which, all PC aside, should surely be in the Capital City. The famous 'vacant' plinth in Trafalgar Square would seem appropriate in many ways, for here we already honour a previous hero who saved us from subjugation by a Continental Tyrant, using unconventional methods, and who had scandalised contemporary society. The present custodian of this site, Ken Livingstone would surely be receptive to honouring a National Hero who was the antithesis of a military commander, and yet arguably was more responsible for saving his country from such subjugation than anyone else, with the possible exception of Churchill. Discuss?