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Amid the tariff turbulence coming from the White House, this is a triumph - up to a point - for Downing Street.

Asked why limited information had been released about the contents of the sanctions package, a No 10 spokesman said: "It's just a point of fact that the G7 has only just begun... it would be premature to get ahead of what those sessions will yield."

Generous with his time, he always makes a point of walking down the line of the youngsters waiting for an autograph after every round, good or bad, remembering at one point he was in that line as "a wee boy from Oban".

"It got to a point where it started having a real impact on my life."

Notably, there is no single definition of what qualifies as the point of singularity, though many use computer scientist Ray Kurzweil’s definition of it being a point where technological growth reaches a speed where it is no longer predictable.