The biggest issue on the doorstep this time is not, as usual, transport, but instead the appalling housing shortage.
Instead, his subdued audience of 10,000 were told in some detail of government investment in roads and in addressing the city's appalling water shortage.
Leningrad put up a desperate and courageous resistance in the face of many assaults, constant artillery and air bombardment, and appalling suffering from shortages of supplies.
There's been no shortage of appalling gun rampages this summer, considering the shootings at a Toronto mall or backyard BBQ, the Batman shooter in Colorado, or the racist lunatic who shot up a Sikh temple during his fucked up skinhead wet dream.
There's a tension with what's currently happening in our prisons: the lack of activity, the shortage of staff, the appalling rise of suicide and self-harm, and violence in prisons.
When Philip, Elizabeth, and Tuan have dinner with the dissident family, the father, who's just arrived from the Soviet Union, tells appalling stories about Russian corruption and food shortages.
It has been claimed that one medical facility is being attacked every 17 hours, and doctors are being forced to make appalling decisions to let children die due to a shortage of blood, medical supplies and more complex scanners.
Children are succumbing to a deadly array of threats: Extreme overcrowding in camps for displaced people, shortage of clean water, inadequate latrines and appalling sanitary conditions in which rain-soaked mud mingles with human excreta.
The country still needs to improve energy infrastructure and road networks, tackle appalling maternal and child-health indicators, and address skills shortages and corruption in the public sector.
If the Tories' appalling record on housing continues, then we'll have a shortage of 1.8m homes by 2025, the last of our social housing will be sold off, and more than 100,000 families will be left homeless.
