All this is happening, though you wouldn’t know it from the coverage, with the support and encouragement of the British public. A consultation last July found that 60% of the 44,000 responses backed the idea of taking nature as the theme, just in front of “architecture and landmarks” on 56%, and way ahead of “historic figures” at a measly 38%. Whether the public would have been quite so keen if they’d known upfront that “household pets” would be explicitly excluded from possible designs, I’m not so sure.