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    Oct 28, 2021 4 minutes

    ON 21 JULY 2021, at the 44th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City became the third WORLD HERITAGE SITE to lose its designation. This was a snub long in the making. Liverpool local government has long held the city’s global status in contempt, thumbing their noses at UNESCO as a signal to constituents that they are committed to the economic development of the city above the wishes of distant, international, bureaucratic heritage fetishists.

    There was always a problem with Liverpool’s heritage status, which was awarded in 2003 at the tail end of many decades of economic stagnation as it began to pivot into of the early twentieth century.

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