No Powerpoint in the House

Earlier this year, Parliament was wired to allow MPs to use laptops while in the debating chamber. Unfortunately, according to the rules for "use of laptops and mobile devices in the Chamber" I acquired today, they won't actually be able to use them for anything useful or fun. Among the rules:

• [Laptops] are only to be used for work-related activities
• they must not be used for games or other amusements
• they must not be used to take still or video images of the proceedings
• they must not be used to make audio recordings of the proceedings of the House
• they must not be used to broadcast still images, video images or audio of the proceedings of the House
• they must not be used for the purposes of demonstration and display.

So, no PXTs of the Minister of Fourty Winks having another nap, no audio of the delightful catcalls across the Chamber, and most importantly, no use of Powerpoint.

Well, at least they've got something right...