But in theory an organisation exists that might have prevented it: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). Last month, Unesco’s World Heritage Committee gathered for its annual convention in Busan, South Korea. Attendees describe an unseemly jostling for inscription, as even the most wretched administrations crave the soft-power cachet of a Unesco World Heritage site designation. Wales has nine World Heritage sites – Wales is nice and all, but come on!’ But you can at least visit World Heritage sites; they give you something to do on a drizzly afternoon abroad.