Keeping our Heritage Safe for Market Forces

Unlike windfarms or homes for the proles, the average glass-and-concrete corporate phallus elicits no concern from the cheery philistines of the Bullingdon Club, and still less from their Minister for Atomisation and token northerner, the fleshpot of Brentwood and Ongar, Eric Pickles. There are plans to build skyscrapers in Westminster, a golf course next to the Giant's Causeway and a supermarket at Hayle Harbour, a Gove-historically insignificant site in Cornwall. Naturally, there will be jobs and urban regeneration and all the usual benefits which occur when large private companies get their way. Turning the Giant's Causeway into an adjunct of a golf complex could even "put Northern Ireland on the world's sporting map", much as the Olympics has enriched London's East End and motivated thousands of sportsbeings off scrounger benefits. Nevertheless, the wogs at UNESCO are threatening to take Britain's heritage status down a peg or two; which is certainly too bad of them.