Following the tremendous success of 'Global Village Idiot' here is another collection of funny, satirical essays on a hundred 21st century subjects reproduced from John O'Farrell's hugely popular Guardian column. ead how the government plans to introduce 'santa loans' that will leave school children o10,000 in debt for all the presents that used to be free from Father Christmas. earn how EC expansion is being delayed while they try to work out whether Slovakia and Slovenia are the same country or not. nd as Wall Street fraud cripples America, read how George Bush had to be stopped from bombing the perpetrators!