I just signed a piece of history.

During the course of the past hundred or so years, 49,000 men in the UK were arrested and punished for being gay. Under an arcane legal system, this swathe of men, World War 2 hero Alan Turing among them, were systematically discriminated against.

It is too late for most of them.

Alan Turing himself, however, was pardoned by Gordon Brown not so long ago. Now is the time to pardon the other 49,000 men who were in a similar position. Sign it, share it and join the likes of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch.