It begs the unsavoury question: do we now live in a world where only increases in crime are deemed newsworthy? Perhaps so: the media responded to the CSEW stats by focusing on the grim truth that the numbers of women killed by current of former partners rose slightly to 84 (from 76 in 2013) and rose to 23 (from 16) for men. Yet this rise follows the two lowest years on record and, even with the rise, the new figures are the third lowest ever.