d’Hive · Public pilot

Public decisions should leave a memory

Understand the choices. Record the forecasts. Learn from the outcomes.

d’Hive brings proposals, arguments, evidence and predictions together around important UK policy questions—then preserves what people expected before the result was known.

Issues

Questions under consideration

Open for deliberation25 contributions

Great Britain’s electricity strategy through 2035

What electricity-generation strategy should Great Britain pursue through 2035?

Compare renewables-led clean power, Reform UK’s cost-and-security-first reset, and a nuclear-centred low-carbon route.

Most supported proposal: Build renewables-led clean power backed by firm and flexible capacity

Open issue
Open for deliberation23 contributions

New grammar schools in England

Should England allow new state-funded academically selective grammar schools to open?

Compare the inherited legal settlement, carefully designed selection for social mobility, and ending academic selection.

Most supported proposal: Retain existing grammar schools but keep the ban on new selective schools

Open issue
Open for deliberation25 contributions

Housing supply and affordability in England

What should England’s principal strategy be for increasing housing supply and making housing more affordable?

Compare combined planning and public-housebuilding reform, flexible zoning, and a social-rent-led council programme.

Most supported proposal: Combine planning reform with a major social and affordable housebuilding programme

Open issue
Open for deliberation25 contributions

Annual wealth tax

Should the UK introduce an annual wealth tax on very high levels of personal wealth?

Compare a targeted annual net-wealth tax with the current mix of capital, inheritance and property taxes and an IFS-style reform of those existing taxes.

Most supported proposal: Reform capital taxes instead of introducing an annual wealth tax

Open issue
Open for deliberation23 contributions

Legal immigration over the next five years

What level and composition of legal immigration should the UK seek over the next five years?

Compare lower and more selective migration, Reform UK’s tighter temporary-visa model, and a controlled but labour-market-responsive approach.

Most supported proposal: Lower migration while selecting for higher skills and strategic shortages

Open issue