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The Economist
The Economist
1 May 2025


NextImg:Why building anything in London is so hard
Britain | City limits

Why building anything in London is so hard

Brownfield projects are bogged down by bewildering bureaucracy

|Bromley-by-Bow

THE SEVEN giant cast-iron gasholders were once a proud symbol of Victorian engineering. Now brambles cluster around them; the site’s rusty gate has long been padlocked. Having once heated London’s East End, the Bromley-by-Bow gasworks have a prized site: a stone’s throw from Hackney Wick, the city’s hipster frontier, and just over two miles from Canary Wharf, its modern financial district. Until recently it was going to seed.

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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “City limits ”

 People from the transgender community hold a protest against the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman

Women win legal clarity—but Britain’s gender wars intensify

The Supreme Court’s ruling on sex was the easy part. Implementing it will be harder


People dressed in traditional Polish costume at Potters Fields Park.

Britain’s Poles now earn more than the natives

Possibly because the least successful migrants have left


Broken windows and pockmarked roads

Britain has become shabbier and more disorderly. Voters have noticed

The strange success of snooker 

Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going