Baroness Stern, charged by Harriet Harman to conduct a review into the way rape cases are handled, told the Evening Standard that being drunk was no defence. For the man, that is: she seems to take a different view of drunken women.

However, that’s hardly statistics. More encouragingly, Lady Stern (pictured) seems to have got the point over the obsession of ministers with the claim that only 5 per cent of reported rapes end in convictions. (Actually, the figure generally claimed is 6 per cent.)
 
This figure was “misleading” she said. A more accurate picture was given by the 61 per cent conviction rate for cases that come to court. Perhaps she’s been reading Straight Statistics.