First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog

Welcome to First Drafts, the Prospect magazine editorial blog: a distinctive forum connected to, but independent from, Prospect magazine itself.

Here, you’ll find discussions of each edition’s lead stories, weekly updates on our free-to-read web-exclusive content, roundups of the best of the rest of the media, regular arts and political coverage from staffers, guest correspondents’ live blogging from elections and events around the world, and an eccentric mix of facts, analysis, opinion and comment.

Prospect magazine itself is a monthly British general interest magazine, specialising in politics and current affairs. Writing from an independent editorial perspective, we cover British, European, US and world politics, social issues, art, literature, cinema, science, the media, history, philosophy, and psychology. We feature a mixture of essay-length analytic articles, first-person reportage, one-page columns, and shorter, quirkier items—and enjoy a lively and expanding international community of readers, both in print and on the web.

Thank you for visiting—and have a good time.