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Political knockabouts, judicial control, mellifluous voices, constitutional coup - call it what you will over proroging Parliament. But these Brexit machinations aren’t going away anytime soon. That is, unless the whole thing is cancelled once and for all. Frankly, one wonders how the UK ever got to this point after three years since a Referendum on continued European Union (EU) membership.

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£199
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Do you know your Pierogi from your Bigos, or your Kluski from your Zurek? Well, it might come as a bit of a surprise to many but the city of Kraków (Cracow in English) in southern Poland near the border to the Czech Republic became the first recipient of the ‘European Capital of Gastronomic Culture’ for 2019.

After a sweltering summer in Paris, where most of us have kept make-up to a bare minimum, it’s time to break out the colour once again and embrace autumn’s best beauty trends. Much of what we'll be seeing is in surprising, yet beautiful, shade palettes.

One of the most iconic cars from Bentley’s history – Sir Tim Birkin’s 1929 supercharged 4½-litre “Blower” – is to be reborn with a new build of 12 matching cars, each individually handcrafted by a team of specialists from Bentley’s bespoking and coachwork division, Mulliner. Together, the new cars will form the world’s first pre-war race car continuation series.

Mercedes are masters at creating luxurious and stylish convertibles. They have a long and distinguished history of making beautiful and timeless convertible cars.
One of their latest is the E Class convertible. We were fortunate to have been given an E220d AMG line recently for a week of effortless and stylish cruising in the lap of luxury.
Mercedes currently offer 3 convertible models. The C class, E Class and S class. The E Class sits right in the middle with a starting price of £45,960.

For my day to day riding, I've been wearing my old textile gear until recently. The old jacket and trousers have seen many, many miles in wind, rain and shine. To be honest, they were well past their best and not only did they leak, but I looked like a tramp in them.
The final straw was when the seam on the arse of the textile trousers split.
Design, trends and materials have moved on significantly since I bought my old gear.

With the decline is sports bike sales, manufacturers have had to look elsewhere. They have had to find more creative ways to sell motorcycles and one of the ways has been to develop categories such as adventure and retro bikes. That's brilliant for me, I love both.

We have not evolved over millions of years to sit at a desk. In fact desks really only came in with writing, probably invented by the Sumerians over 3000 years ago. Now that may sound like a long time, but in evolutionary terms it is nothing, a blip.
With the advent of personal computing came longer hours spent staring at a screen with even less movement than before. We all know the concentration that computer work brings, hours can pass without moving.

International Excellence Magazine chatted with Jack Lambert, Vehicle Dynamics Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations, about the exciting developments of the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy and what it took to turn the production I-PACE into a street circuit racing, electric demon for the Formula E Challenge. Jack was a pleasure to chat with, charming and a complete expert in his field, speaking passionately about all aspects of racing the Jaguar I-PACE. We’ll be following the Jaguar eTrophy with great interest.
 
This is a faithful rendition of our conversation.