Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century.

Naughty boys and rumpy-pumpy -- Honorable members -- A fact too good to check -- Distressed British nationals -- More than a game -- Toiletgame -- Lawmakers from another planet -- False modesty -- The naked guy and angle-grinder man -- Invasion of the hedgehog people -- "I snapped it out of myself" -- Wine from weeds -- "By God, Sir, I've lost my leg!" -- The best of the day.