Well, well, Starmer goes for Trump rather than the EU.

Ilovecheese

If the internet had had a bit more regulation there might not be so much pornography on it.

This is quite different tho.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I always think about France who don’t even have food deliveries. No internet shopping for groceries there! I think it’s something to do with not having individual post codes (why not in this day and age, surely we must be leaders in this as we’ve had them years?) at addresses. My cousin says deliveries of goods go to their nearest Tabac 5km. away.

This isn't true. There are postcodes in France.
www.smarty.com/articles/la-poste

All the major supermarkets and many local grocery and speciality food stores deliver - veg boxes, Hello Fresh etc all deliver.

Vos courses au pas de votre porte - your shopping at your doorstep. www.carrefour.fr/services/livraison-domicile

Also, we don't have individual postcodes in the UK. Several of my neighbours have the same postcode as me. If you look up your postcode you see the centre of the postcode area - not your actual house.

I've just read the thread title again. How dismissive! It is evident when you read a bit more about it that the UK line was formulated before the Paris meeting, not parroted by a sycophant to echo Trump's response. Plus, Starmer wasn't at the meeting - he sent the man with responsibility for AI matters in his place, after various consultations in the UK on the subject.

He has said himself that as AI has changed as it developed, his views on how best to stay in control of it have changed.

If Trump is reported to prefer apricot jam over marmalade on his toast, and you discovered that is what Starmer has eaten for breakfast for the last twenty years, would you invite us all to scoff at him for toadying? It is possible for two people to come to the same conclusion without one blindly following another. You know that is true too on Gransnet - it is common for several people to make similar comments on a thread completely independently.

Mind you, the press would come down on him hard if they found out he had made the jam himself.

Make his own or use someone else's, the media would report either as worthy of instant dismissal.