thenjohn says, "it's another example of the government not getting to grips with an issue that's beenearlier, he says to me, "it's simple. take the laws relating to alcohol restrictions and substitute smartphone for alcohol and 18 years of age to 16. the bottom line is who buys the phones? the parents do. the buck stops with them." and isn't it interesting, paddy, if those campaigning can make an argument like that begin to gather some momentum? now, whether you could, in a societal sense, put that genie back in the bottle, given how normal the whole business of smartphones have been for this current generation, coupled with — as we were hearing from a newscaster a few minutes ago — the whole question of the extent to which they are actually an integral tool to day to day life, timetabling and dinner money and all the rest of it. but you can see the power of that parallel, can't you, with other now acknowledged societal harms for young people where it is accepted and beyond political debate that they are, there is an age restricted, an age—defined ban. and there's meant to be an age r