I'm worried about our obsession with high-riding, off-roading cars

In the incessant onslaught that is social media, it’s not often a single post stops me in my tracks. But during a routine scroll through my Twitter feed a few weeks ago, one tweet did just that. Irish Greens MP Ciaran Cuffe had written the following about the new Land Rover Defender: “Yikes. The new Land Rover Defender can ‘overcome hitting a 200mm high square-edged kerb at 40km/h’. Not great news for any pedestrian standing on the other side of that kerb.”