It may seem regrettable that there was a need for such a project – or indeed any debate about the issue – in 2014 but James Taylor, head of policy at Stonewall, accepts that football's embrace of certain aspects of diversity lags behind that experienced in other spheres.
While I'm not going to argue with the science of this, it does seem regrettable that the same voices are seldom heard campaigning for other essential elements of the "therapeutic setting": decent, healthy food, for example, access to fresh air and exercise, talking therapies, even massage.
Even allowing for the inevitable delays to review the data carefully, it seems regrettable that a novel message - that is, the importance of measuring immunoglobulin (and possibly CD4) levels after starting patients on mycophenolate and high-dose steroids prior to the introduction of Atacicept - has taken so long to be published.
Before long, I hope, that won't seem so regrettable.
In Kavanagh's sympathetic telling, the sow's ear seems the regrettable but all too comprehensible product of a childhood straight out of Dickens or Zola.
But the Arab world has been in decline for six centuries because of a stultifying intellectual conformism, an insufficient clash of ideas, and so it seems particularly regrettable that our war on terror should lead to more repression.
It seems a regrettable reminder, too, of the benighted World Trade Center's former plaza, where no one wanted to go unless they had to.
More unbearable to contemplate was the corollary: "Low status came to seem not merely regrettable but also deserved".
Low status then comes to seem not merely regrettable, but also deserved.A solution to spiralling desires and expectations perhaps lies in the recognition that wealth does not involve having many things.
Cameron's unforced error in damaging relations with Europe's mainstream centre right leaders, including the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and splitting his MEPs over who they sit next to in the European parliament may now seem a rare, regrettable lapse into taking a policy decision.
During this 35-year spell, Stoppard has written radio plays, had stage works adapted for TV and scripted one original drama – Squaring the Circle (1984), about the Polish uprisings in the 1980s – for commercial television, but it does seem extraordinary and regrettable that such a significant dramatist has been so lost to a medium that broadcasts hundreds of hours of fiction every year.
