The appalling reports we've read about the 11 hospitals placed on special measures this week could have been written at any point during the 30 plus years he has worked for the NHS – "Exactly the same.
There is no currently no news on Ai's condition, only rumour, including an unconfirmed and appalling graphic report, by a disaffected Xinhua journalist writing under a pseudonym, that Ai has been tortured, and has begun to confess to his supposed crimes.
Perhaps Feltham's appalling recent inspection report was the straw that broke the camel's back – but if so, it is a mighty resilient camel.
Violence against women has made quite a few headlines recently, particularly in the political realm, given the hard-fought re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and also the appalling new Pentagon report showing that sexual assaults in the military are at an all-time high, with an astounding 26,000 assaults in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010.
Once again that leviathan of the high street, Tesco, reported appalling sales figures, down 3.1% from a year earlier.
When the volunteers reported appalling conditions and a permeating sense of hopelessness in the prisons, Colson decided to launch a political offshoot, called the Justice Fellowship.
What is most troubling about this event is not the outrageously condescending attitude of Femen, nor the reported appalling sexism of the some of the Muslims involved: it is that these two voices are once again propped up as the only two in the conversation.
Over the course of Wilmore's show, we've seen an appalling increase in reports about police brutality against people of color, which is forcing a critical national conversation about race.
Foreign images of the tropics often include verdant rainforests, exotic animals, and unchanging weather, but they may also be of entrenched poverty, unstable governments, and appalling environmental destruction reports Jeremy Hance at Mongabay.
Patten says the McAlpline report involved "appalling judgment".
