Citizens leave their homes only if they have no choice. Each time they do, they risk kidnap, torture and death in the regime's El Helicoide, the brutalist prison that looms menacingly over the city.
It's 2 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon at Butlin's in Skegness and I'm about sample one of the site's famed group activities - but I'm not about to play bingo or join a round of pitch 'n' putt.
It is scary season, and nowhere more so than at His Majesty's Treasury where - following a week of pre-Budget turmoil - they are fighting all manner of financial demons.
Did BBC deliberately try to mislead me? Did they lie to me, just as their reporter lied to Princess Diana to get her to pour her heart out to the nation in the now notorious Panorama programme back i…
Before the infamous Panorama interview in which he lured Princess Diana onto primetime TV through a series of lies, Martin Bashir was more or less a nobody in media circles.
Billed simply as 'An interview with HRH The Princess of Wales', with no hint of what was to come, the programme would turn out to be the most controversial broadcast by the BBC.
For those of us who worry about our sleep, every morning is a scramble to check our various gadgets which inevitably confirm that we did in fact sleep badly.
With its Asian grocery stores and jewellers, a West Indian bakery and even a branch of the Bank of India, the main Soho Road through Handsworth certainly seems multicultural.
Just hours after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Russian forces reached Kateryna and Maryna's hometown and tortured their uncle for being a member of the local resistance.