继允许议员们携带iPad和智能手机等高科技电子产品进入上议院之后，近日英国上议院又有官员建议让议员们学会玩“愤怒的小鸟”之类的电脑游戏，以帮助他们尽快掌握高科技产品的使用方法。

Allowing iPads into the chamber¹ was supposed to drag the House of Lords into the 21st century.

But it turns out peers aren’t quite ready for the IT revolution – with the result that remedial（治疗的，补救的） classes in computer games have been prescribed.

To the anger of traditionalists, officials have suggested teaching the noble lords how to play games such as Angry Birds to improve their technological² know-how³.

It follows the controversial decision by the Lords administration and works committee to allow handheld devices including tablets and smartphones into the chamber for a one-year trial.

Officials said they could provide peers with relevant ‘parliamentary papers and other documents’ during debates.

But amid fears the Lords may struggle with the devices, one committee member suggested they should get ‘Angry Birds lessons’ so that they ‘really understand what this stuff is all about’.

Tory peer Lord Tebbit criticised the idea as ‘nonsense’. 'If peers haven’t got the brains to work out how to use the devices themselves, they shouldn’t be in here,’ he added.

'I am concerned that while iPads can help Lords find information during debates, they will end up paying more attention to them than what is going on.’