Year: 2023

Despite it seemingly sharing a setting with Fable, there’s no indication that Microsoft is involved with Peter Molyneux’s new game.

Talking Europe hosts the newly appointed EU Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra. The EU has put the Green Deal at the heart of its policy making, and Hoekstra was confirmed in the key job after somewhat fractious hearings in the European Parliament, where some MEPs drew attention to his past work for oil and gas giant Shell. We discuss his plans for implementing the green transition, and the upcoming COP28 summit in Dubai.

Microsoft is accused of manipulating user reviews for Forza Motorsport from the Xbox store, even though its user score is still surprisingly low.

Sally Ann Matthews teased what is still to come.

Microsoft cleared to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard The updated bid by Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard, the…

Elijah McClain, 23, was stopped by police while walking home from a convenience store in August 2019.

England and Essex legend Alastair Cook retires from professional cricket Alastair Cook has announced he is retiring from professional cricket,…

Captain Tom’s family say they received death threats and hate mail The family of NHS fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore…

The EU faces what is arguably its stiffest foreign policy test since the war in Ukraine. A devastating attack on Israel by Hamas has been met with a massive Israeli response in the Gaza Strip. It is being described as the worst chapter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the war of October 1973. We discuss how convincing – or otherwise – the EU’s response has been so far, as well as the EU’s messaging mess when it comes to the question of continued development aid to the Palestinians.

A true English sporting legend.