Continued upsetting news about our inadequate response to the ever-present problem of violence against women and girls in the UK - or VAWG, as it seems to have been acronymed - from The Guardian’s reporting.

Despite the fact it’s famously under-reported, such offences apparently constituted 20% of all police-recorded crime in 2022-23.

And the proportion of the UK women that underwent sexual assault per year went up from 3.4% to 4.3% in the year 2023-24.

Starmer’s government has a goal to “halve violence against women and girls in a decade”. I desperately hope they furnish the effort with enough resources to give it a fighting chance of working.