In this month’s Report Progress takes a look at the policy ideas that didn’t get your vote in our year-long Progressive Deficit Survey. We also take an irreverent swipe at our favourite foes in the 2004 Progress awards.
In the discussion section Vidya Ram argues for a move away from the issue of trust in British politics whilst further afield Sam Hardy tries to unpick the increasingly complicated conflict in Russia between the country’s business leaders and the Kremlin.
In the first of two articles this month, Matthew Burchell explains the small print in the Conservative’s and Labour’s new child-care policy statements, whilst in his second piece he gives a warning from America on how direct democracy is not always the voters best friend.