It's 100 years next weekend since the doomed Allied land offensive to take Gallipoli began, and Rachel has used her grandfather's story as the inspiration for her new novel, Glory.
And, as other polling – including internal Republican analysis – has shown, without demographic expansion, the GOP is doomed anyway.
Even the Times admits – in the small print inside – that it's likely to be safe for another decade, though the BBC Trust is probably doomed (and rightly so).
"Any reaction or protest needs to be both peaceful and lawful, as called for by unionist leaders in their statement today [Thursday]." The exit of the Democratic Unionist party and Ulster Unionist party on Thursday has more than likely doomed the talks process aimed at clearing up residual issues that remain unsolved in the power-sharing and peace settlement in Northern Ireland.
Not to mention another doomed campaign to stop people singing "Fuck the IRA!" – suggested alternative lyrics: "Follow England away!" – through the entire self-hobbling exercise.
In his opinion, the ongoing talks are doomed to fail because Iran will never put up with the US.
As Huw Richards puts it in this retrospective article for ESPN: "Trench warfare, which periodically sent men over the top in doomed assaults on machine-gun toting adversaries, might have been designed specifically as a means of killing rugby players".
Indeed, on the flight over to Blackpool Trimble made it clear to the journalists (including this one) who had travelled over with him that the Tories were doomed; he even laughed at reports that morning in the Daily Telegraph which claimed the Conservatives might be heading for an autumn of recovery in the polls.
Of all the senators who attempted Wednesday to rally support for the doomed Manchin-Toomey background check amendment, Connecticut's Democratic freshman representative, Chris Murphy, probably faced the greatest temptation to borrow the moral authority of the Newtown families.
He complained about it earlier, the rocky state of commercial music, the sense of being on a doomed ship.
Realistically, there is no physical or mental difference between George Osborne and a three-year-old, and this is why we're doomed.
