Statue of Alan Turing Proposed be Permanently Placed on London’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square

A statue of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing has been suggested be permanently installed on the empty Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square, a prestigious platform that has previously hosted commissioned temporary sculptures by contemporary artists like Marc Quinn, Yinka Shonibare, Katharina Fritsch, Hans Haacke, and David Shrigley, among others. A monument to the late Turing was proposed by outgoing British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who described Turing as “probab