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.
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.
Before long, I hope, that won't seem so regrettable.
The attitude behind this last sentence seems to me the regrettable part of Orwell's legacy.
There is no Tony Award for best ensemble, an omission that seems all the more regrettable after so many strong ensemble performances this season.
He seems to have these regrettable misses – last year he missed the panel about child safety, and the year before about privacy.
While there seems to be a regrettable trend for galleries to court public curiosity by emulating the prurient competitiveness of TV talent shows, at least this exhibition provides an opportunity to sample Marten's work.
