The dangers of nuances and barking up the wrong wind turbine

This weekend, entertainer Eartha Kitt didn’t get killed when her enormous people-carrier car clipped another vehicle and flipped over.

Ms Kitt - the original Catwoman - is 77 years of age. She’s also maybe four foot eleven tall and weighs as much as a sliced pan. She must have rattled around in that overturning mini-van like a ball-bearing in a barrel. Even getting into it must be a challenge. Short women trying to climb aboard an SUV in high heels need crampons and oxygen tanks.

The ongoing success of a car that wants to be a double-decker bus and which guzzles eight litres of fuel just to get into motion is testament to the marketing prowess of the manufacturers. It testifies also to the current incompetence of the environmental opposition.