[Crabcakes]

I’m sure someone will be along shortly to post in the Telegraph about how they can’t afford a new reg Mercedes this spring because of those awful school fees, and will have to wait 6 months.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/l ... h-a-21000/

“Parent makes financial choice” would of course be a much duller headline.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

He's Vice President of EQTY Life Sciences.

Sciences Investors
With a team of experienced investment professionals comprising medical, scientific, and industry experts, we look for the smartest inventors with ideas that will improve patients' lives. We contribute not only capital, but also strategic, clinical, operational, financial, and commercial guidance and support, to provide the added value that inventors seek.

EQT Life Sciences has a 30-year history, raising 3.5 billion euros and investing in over 150 private companies.

EQT Life Sciences, formerly LSP, is one of Europe’s largest and most experienced Life Sciences investors.

Last year - €10-60m

Probably on a good whack.

[davidjay]

I’m sure someone will be along shortly to post in the Telegraph about how they can’t afford a new reg Mercedes this spring because of those awful school fees, and will have to wait 6 months.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/l ... h-a-21000/

I'd feel a pang of sympathy for their son's needs if they didn't make it so difficult.

[soulboy]

Labour has a combs problem, eh?

I told Keir he needed a new hairbrush.

More like a Herr brush, he is practically Hitler!!!1!one!

As long as they don't have a Combs problem*.


* A reference to Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy, music producer, rap mogul and a current occupant of the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn.

[Crabcakes]

I’m sure someone will be along shortly to post in the Telegraph about how they can’t afford a new reg Mercedes this spring because of those awful school fees, and will have to wait 6 months.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/l ... h-a-21000/

I'd feel a pang of sympathy for their son's needs if they didn't make it so difficult.

I can’t read the full article, but from the small bit of free text, photo and blurb alone I’ve gathered this:

1. The issue is sending their daughter to private school as well will ‘cut into’ their private pensions - their daughter does not have special educational needs, they just want her to go to private school
2. Their son isn’t in their lovely summer holiday to Paris photo. I assume they are not staying in a Formula 1.
3. The private pension ‘hole’ is significantly bigger than some people’s entire pensions
4. I am unclear why the additional few hundred quid from VAT is the issue as opposed to huge school fees in general
5. If this is such a knife-edge financial decision, why is private school even being considered? The slightest rainy day event could lead them to financial peril
6. All the above doesn’t really matter, it’s actually 2 rich, entitled twats who’ve agreed to pose for a Torygraph story pleading poverty because they will be very, very slightly less comfortably off and very, very slightly less privileged. Boo, and indeed, hoo.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is appalling. Hopefully it'll get quietly dropped rather than defended as virility symbol.

[The Weeping Angel]

Great all the you can't out farage farage types will be up in arms over this.

[Youngian]

How many refugees apply to become citizens? Maybe a few who have settled over a long period but so what if they want to apply for citizenship?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Great! All the 'You can't out-Farage Farage' types will be up in arms over this.

FTFY

[Tubby Isaacs]

Thought on this? I think we can overdo the "snub to X, who decides to fuck things up in revenge" takes. But it's quite striking symbolism, even if the view that the EU overregulates tech isn't one confined to JD Vance.

[The Weeping Angel]

Thought on this? I think we can overdo the "snub to X, who decides to fuck things up in revenge" takes. But it's quite striking symbolism, even if the view that the EU overregulates tech isn't one confined to JD Vance.

Not sure.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is good news.

[kreuzberger]

Glory Times...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah, we might be able to reopen a mothballed 9 mile railway.

[mattomac]

The fawning of AI is one of those things I’ve not been massively impressed with though plenty of countries have signed it that have little to do with the EU.

Labour seem to label any technological develop AI, this woman was talking with Starmer about how AI had helped her and it wasn’t AI it was a technological breakthrough. No doubt AI had helped in that as everything seems to be in this area.

The concerns seem somewhat different from Vance but hey ho.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The 21st century cocaine?

[The Weeping Angel]

I've seen better cartoons that have been drawn by colour blind hedgehogs.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Pathetic.

[Tubby Isaacs]

As someone BTL points out, he's rather optimistically tagged Viz.

[The Weeping Angel]

If you're going to do a cartoon about Larry at least try and make him look vaguely like Larry.