What to Expect From FPW
Future Progressive Weekly is a student-run forum dedicated to putting progressive politics back on the front foot. In an increasingly tumultuous age where politics based on mutual respect, healthy debate, and decency is under increasing challenge, FPW strives to provide a space where Britain’s youth can find their voice and restore these core democratic values.
In combining rigorous election forecasting with thought-provoking editorial writing, Future Progressive Weekly aims to return agency to progressive politics in Britain and contribute to building a movement capable of winning modern political debate. Ultimately, democracy is a contest of ideas. FPW seeks to help develop a progressive case that can win these crucial arguments, move beyond the standpoint's current reactive stupor, and inspire Britain's youth to cherish and defend our fragile political freedoms, values, and institutions.
In the face of extremist challenges, and at a time when polarisation can so easily fuel the politics of hatred, FPW seeks to define and strengthen a progressive argument suited to the unique pressures of contemporary British politics. Progressive intellectual paralysis too often drives well-meaning progressives towards reactive politics—a losing formula. It is time to forge a new progressive path for Britain, and FPW aims to play its part in that endeavour.
Co-editor & election forecastor
Grace Wilson
A third-year History and Politics student at Queen Mary University of London with an interest in electoral behaviour and political analysis. Alongside this, I am currently researching for my dissertation about the political representation of ethnic minority communities in Britain.
Co-editor & British politics CORRESPONDENT
William Collinson
A History and Politics student at Queen Mary University of London with a strong interest in political analysis, contemporary British politics and public policy. Growing up in the North East and moving to London has provided me with a first-hand appreciation of the gravity of issues such as regional inequality, devolution, economic renewal and the role that progressive politics must play in relation to these significant issues that hold back Britain.