Liverpool deserves better than the humiliation of losing its Unesco status | Simon Jenkins

The city’s historic waterfront is at risk of being overshadowed by banal flats and offices. National government must step in

Britain could next month become only the second country in the world to have a monument stripped of world heritage status by Unesco. That monument is Liverpool’s magnificent waterfront. And, as if to brush off this shame, Boris Johnson and his government intend to put another site in danger too, at Stonehenge. Does anyone care?

Stonehenge is merely the symbol of a minor but ...