A new (ish) concept - oh, high concept - fusing together the blog and the email community. You can either read the fitful British-and-world politics blog online, and do nothing, or you can join this list, and get the blog posts in your email and respond to them in front of however-many-members we get.

The blog is vaguely left-leaning, liberal and soft; written from a British perspective and sardonic. You don't have to be.

So, if you're keen to debate Blunkett's desire for us all to have ID cards, or wonder why it takes one Tory to run the entire Health and Education policy machine, but two to head up the party's affairs, or if you simply wonder what's wrong with Charles Kennedy liking a drink; if you can't help yourself from wondering just how Sophie managed to need that cesearean at the same time the Mail on Sunday published; or how come biased-bbc only ever seem to notice apparent pro-Palestinian bias but never seem to have a computer handy for the apparent pro-Israeli items... this could be for you.