A British movie called "Pride" has won an award at Cannes Film Festival for best film depicting LGBT characters. The movie is about an unlikely alliance between miners threatened by Margret Thatcher's redundancy plans and Britain's LGBT community threatened by the PM's socially conservative agenda.

This probably won't last much longer than the flattened Zebra Cake in my purse, but Rihanna and Chris Brown have broken up once again, shortly after he was photographed holding the hand of a 22-year-old blonde waitress named Keisha Kimball at Da Club last Saturday.

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first and only female Prime Minister — as well as the first leader to win three General Elections in a row — has died of a stroke at the age 0f 87.

Iowa's endlessly-discussed caucus is tomorrow, and as part of Michele Bachmann's extremely uphill battle to win it, she's airing a brand new ad on local TV. The ad, which is only 30 seconds long, at first appears to be just another standard-issue spot laced with half-truths and bland music. Then at the :04 mark, a…

While many Americans don't find fairly recent British prime ministers all that fascinating, according to the full UK trailer, The Iron Lady is going to be a hilarious conservative romp set to "Our House." However, there's also plenty here for the brains among us. Judging from the second half of the trailer, this is…

Who says the fashion industry isn't responsive to the social issues of the day? As the U.K. suffers with widespread civil unrest and looting following the police shooting of a father of four, Harper's Bazaar's September issue includes a Terry Richardson editorial where Georgia May Jagger, styled to look like someone's…

In this glimpse of The Iron Lady — directed by Phyllida Lloyd — we see two men attempting to coach the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, played by Meryl Streep. While Streep is only on screen for mere seconds, it's obvious that once again, she's completely transformed and disappeared into her…

Margaret Thatcher's black Asprey handbag is not fancy. It is, in fact, quite plain. Simple. Minimalist. Rigidly structured. Square. Devoid of decoration. But, as the Daily Mail reports, Margaret Thatcher's handbag holds an important place in political history. Thatcher used the handbag to carry important documents and…

Former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher (try saying that three times fast) is in the hospital, likely for a few days, for precautionary treatments after coming down with the flu last week. Her son says she's "good, chirpy."

Margaret Thatcher's children are allegedly unhappy with Meryl Streep's portrayal of their mother in the forthcoming biopic, since "The Iron Lady depicts her...as an elderly dementia-sufferer looking back on her career with sadness." The director insists that they're being sensitive.

[London; May 4, 1989. Image via Getty]

For now, the fashion for Tory chic goes on....(including) T-shirts printed with portraits of political leaders. The Thatcher print is particularly commanding. How is it selling? "Better than any of the others," says the store manager. [Guardian]

Does the smiling bride in this photograph seem ever-so-slightly familiar? That's because this is Margaret Thatcher in 1951, 8 years before she won her first election. In fact, it's before she "prettied" herself up in order to win that election, if the new film Margaret Thatcher — The Long Walk To Finchley and her…

The Brits really seem to be in a state of sartorial unrest. And now, just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, The Daily Telegraph's Sarah Mower has begun championing "The New Puritanism" — a tragic look heralded by the return of the shoulder pad: