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Stranger Things Star Caleb McLaughlin Had The Perfect Response To The Long Wait For Season Five

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If there’s one thing we know about Stranger Things, it’s that this show loves a dramatic build-up.

Netflix hoped to tide fans over last month with a behind-the-scenes feature revealing that the cast and crew were officially halfway through filming the final season.

It was definitely an exciting update, but even two years after the epic fourth season dropped, we could well be waiting until next year before the Hawkins gang are back on our screens again.

But as fans are eagerly awaiting for the fifth and final season of the hit sci-fi drama to drop, star Caleb McLaughlin – who plays Lucas Sinclair in the series – is one cast member who’s well aware of just how long things are taking.

In a hilarious post on X, the actor shared a picture of his character alongside Max (Sadie Sink) and Robin (Maya Hawke), with each of them appearing a lot older than they are, with the help of some special effects.

“Sneak peak of Season 5,” he joked in the caption.

The official Stranger Things account very much saw the funny side, writing in response: “OK grandpa lucas let’s get you to bed.”

Production for the new season only kicked off in January of this year, after the new season was paused last year due to the writers’ strike.

But the cast and crew have promised a suitably epic conclusion to the wildly popular show.

“Like every season, you never know what to expect,” said Caleb in a recent Netflix video feature. “100%, the wait will be worth it.”

Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Vecna, added: “Season four was big. Season five definitely feels bigger.”

Seasons one to four of Stranger Things are available to watch on Netflix now.

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Keir Starmer Announces New National Violent Disorder Unit To Tackle Rioters

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Keir Starmer has just announced a new national violent disorder unit to address rioters after meeting with police chiefs this afternoon.

The group will look to increase intelligence gathering and sharing on potential unrest and “extremist troublemakers” from across the ideological spectrum.

The unit will be part of the national police operations centre, although the financial details of the group are yet to be firmed up.

The prime minister’s decision comes after a surprise wave of far-right protests sprung up this week in response to the Southport knife attack on Monday.

Starmer said the violent demonstrations were the “actions of a tiny mindless minority” and slammed “far-right hatred”.

“These thugs are mobile, they move from community to community, and we must have a police response that can do the same,” he said in a televised press conference.

He said the “violent disorder, clearly whipped up online” was crime, not protest.

He added that the government would take “all necessary action to keep our streets safe.”

Violent demonstrations in Southport, Hartlepool and London – just outside the gates to Downing Street – claimed to be motivated by the horrific stabbings in Merseyside earlier this week where three girls under the age of 10 died.

The 17-year-old suspect, now publicly named as Cardiff-born Axel Rudakubana, has been charged with three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder.

Before his identity was confirmed, social media misinformation had galvanised far-right protesters who chanted, “stop the boats” and threw missiles at the police during the riots.

The judge took the unusual decision of naming a suspect who is under 18 in an effort to stop the spread of misinformation “in a vacuum”.

Rudakubana is also set to turn 18 on Wednesday, August 7.

Starmer said his meeting with police chiefs was held to “pull together our response, response both to the immediate challenge which is clearly driven by far-right hatred, but also all violent disorder that flares up whatever the apparent cause or motivation”.

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Liz Truss Says She Is A ‘Victim’ Of An Attempt ‘To Sabotage My Administration’

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Liz Truss has described herself as a “victim” of “sabotage” almost two years after her party kicked her out of 10 Downing Street.

The former prime minister lost her job after just 49 days in office once she unveiled £45bn of unfunded tax cuts in her mini-Budget, a move which sent the markets into turmoil.

She also lost her seat in the general election last month.

But speaking to The Daily Telegraph’s podcast, the Daily T earlier this week, Truss once again refused to accept responsibility for her fiscal policies.

Explaining why her radical plans to reduce taxes had to be dropped so suddenly in 2022, she said: “I knew, and I was directly threatened with this, that there could potentially be a meltdown in terms of the government not being able to fund its own debt.”

“And I couldn’t risk that,” she said, saying that was “more important to me than me keeping my job”.

She said “powerful people” including the governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey and members of the Tory Party “undermined me”.

Truss continued: “For the good of the country, I had to remove myself from office.

“That doesn’t mean I think they were right to do that.

“I was the victim, frankly, of an attempt to sabotage my administration by people who didn’t agree with my policies.

“That was the issue, and what I am saying – and why I am speaking out now – is unless we fix that accountability problem we have in Britain, is we are not going to be able to get proper conservative policies, like lower taxes, supply-side reform, and cutting the size of government.

“Because we have institutions that do not believe in those policies and are prepared to sabotage a government that tries to implement them.”

Truss then said, “I am not responsible for people’s mortgages going up,” – and blamed the Bank of England instead, as the independent institution is responsible for the country’s monetary policies.

It’s worth noting the Bank actually had to intervene to stabilise the pensions market after the mini-Budget.

Truss has tried to repeatedly to redeem her reputation in recent months.

She even slammed the current government after civil servants named her in the official briefing notes for the King’s Speech last month.

Her name was subsequently removed from the notes on the gov.uk website – but that has not stopped Labour politicians from criticising her.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves blamed the economic struggles of the UK on Truss’s premiership on Thursday.

Speaking after the Bank of England finally lowered interest rates for the first time in four years, she maintained that the British economy’s foundations are still unsteady.

Reeves said: “Millions of people are still paying higher mortgage rates after the Conservatives’ mini-Budget less than two years ago that sent interest rates and mortgage rates soaring.”

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Rachel Reeves, “Homeowners will welcome this cut in interest rate”

“But millions of people are still paying higher mortgage rates after the Conservative Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng budget less than two years ago that sent interest rate and mortgage rates soaring”

“I have been… pic.twitter.com/DOSB2wnB4c

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) August 1, 2024

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