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Turns out it might not be such a bad thing that the old Warwick Hotel is no more: According to government documents recently released to the UK National Archives, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent some time locked in her bathroom at the hotel during a visit to Houston in 1977. Details of the trip, which took place two years before Thatcher became prime minister, were released under a law that allows top-secret government papers to be made public after 30 years. Though the file contains assorted other goodies, the bathroom problem is what's been making headlines across Britain. To quote from the papers:

Now that the elections are over, we thought we’d step back 20 years and watch a politically motivated, yet fun, video. Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” was created while Reagan was still in office and the cold war was still alive. The video featured puppets from the British television show Spitting Image, whose likenesses included Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. The show creators also developed puppets in the likeness of each...