Meadows nearly died on 9 December, but David Cameron has not condemned this assault as "shocking and regrettable", nor called for the police officers involved to face the consequences of their actions.
British novelist Hari Kunzru has attacked Turkey's record on free speech at the Istanbul literary event the European Writers' Parliament, describing VS Naipaul's absence from the event "regrettable", and calling for the repeal of the notorious article 301 of the Turkish penal code.
"There were some pitches we'd like to take back, a lot of regrettable pitch calls that I made," Ellis said.
Amid a riot of what Matthew Arnold would call regrettable modern tendencies, the dispersal of this adult security militia is surely progress of a sort.
Shares in Corus fell 13percenttodayafterter President Bush's announcement, which the company called regrettable.
In an unusual political attack on a judicial decision, Manuel Valls, the interior minister, said the verdict was regrettable because it "called into question the principle of secular education".
Similarly, at the White House today, Ari Fleischer, the president's press secretary, played down any sense of urgency about North Korea's announcement, which he called "regrettable".
New, lower emissions targets are now being set with advice from the UK Committee on Climate Change - a move AMs called "regrettable but necessary".
At the same time, he and other business leaders called "regrettable" the panel's concurrence with the House to eliminate the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) that funds basic research by industry.
