Dominic Preston

After several days on an iPhone I miss the universal ‘back’ swipe so bad

My latest post for paid subscribers: a review of Tamila, the new cookbook that covers the cooking behind The Tamil Prince, The Tamil Crown, and Tamila itself. Expect pitch-perfect recreations of most of the restaurants’ classics, though not every recipe went entirely according to plan

HE'S GIVEN THE FOUL AGAINST MAX THERE?!?!?!

The barometer of what's deemed a foul when Gyokeres is being fouled, and when Gyokeres is doing the fouling is absolutely ridiculous.

Nope, I give up. Trying to read some philosophy every week, but 37 pages of this was absolutely enough. Incomprehensible.

A new Alien movie is officially in the works at 20th Century Studios, with Raised By Wolves and Prisoners scribe Aaron Guzikowski attached to write. The new film will reportedly be connected to Prometheus and Covenant. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

Super fun to chat to @bluesguy.bsky.social about this weird moment we're in, where foldables are getting wider just as Hollywood starts to pivot to vertical video

Every Googlebook laptop we’ve tested so far has great hardware. The problem is the software. Here are our collective thoughts on each and every Googlebook, from @superantonio64.bsky.social, @davidpierce.xyz, @dompreston.com, and @steviebonifield.bsky.social:

Oppo's Find X10 Pro Max is great (albeit expensive!) phone. But I was most interested in figuring out whether having three 200MP cameras really means much or not

Clementine, the companion to Quince, has finally arrived. The cooking is simple but excellent, the space cosy and comforting. Slightly steep prices are the only thing that might stop me becoming a regular, but it’s ideal for the occasional treat

Months ago, recordings of Thiel’s lectures were leaked to The Verge. We have listened to and read transcripts of all four of these lectures, which provide a window into Thiel’s dizzying religious and sociocultural philosophy. Here's what we found: www.theverge.com/tech/1014252...

I always think about what Mac from Always Sunny said about his transformation

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

The perk of having friends with cats is that occasionally you get to look after their cats

I'm at the ballroom I'm at the military complex I'm at the combination ballroom and military complex

gyökeres has been quite good since coming on, if you’re even allowed to say that (because of woke)

From me yesterday, the Apple HomeView's recipe feature looks like a huge convenience for home cooks, but there's good reason recipe writers might not be fans

Was throwing a senior civil servant under the bus a wise thing to do? No But did it demonstrate a ruthless political shrewdness and save the political career of Keir Starmer? Also no

But it's FIFA's most prestigious prize

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

Gross

Really enjoyed the almost excessively French Casse-Croûte in Bermondsey, which backs up the OTT aesthetic with some simply excellent cooking

Not sure you ever could have convinced me I'd be into a Narnia movie, but this looks great

Mark Zuckerberg trying to drink Guinness like a hoo-man.

After a week with two Googlebooks, I still believe there's a future in the Android laptops, but Google will have its work cut out to get us there

Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.

Man City such a good team - will be hard to beat in next season's Championship

My 20 favourite places to eat and drink in London right now. Half of them aren’t really restaurants, despite the title, but I forgot to change that so we’re all going to have to live with it

Well at least the crimes are becoming sufficiently cyberpunk

Four of us at @theverge.com have been playing with Googlebooks this week - here's what we think so far. Spoiler: it's been a little rough

The deep-fried bread and butter pudding certainly isn’t the only reason to visit Café Cecilia, but it sure doesn’t hurt

Couldn't have happened to a nicer phone company

I've got two Intel-based Googlebooks on their way to me, so I guess I'll be hunting down weird performance problems this week

This always felt like the likely outcome. Can't say I mind too much, we were only ever going to add a few thousand seats at best, and the disruption would have been enormous

This isn’t the meal I intended to eat on a visit to Cambridge the other week, but one look at these dumplings should tell you it worked out okay in the end

UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread: