Mat Bowles

It is REALLY annoying to not be able to comment on livejournal using an account I use and am already logged into, in a style I like without white-on-gray-on-black text. I'm just saying.

That being said:

Half a day a week? For £5K a year? Nice work if you can get it.

Paying me, at my standard rate, for 4 hours a week, and you'd come out to more than $12,000 a year. Which is *more* than five thousand pounds a year.

If his daughter is a professional and is contracting to him, that's an entirely reasonable rate. If she's a lawyer, she's giving him a pretty damn big *discount*.

I'll note that the Times makes no attempt to say *what* she does or what her qualifications are. And given that the rate is entirely reasonable for some professions, undercharges for others, and grossly overcharges for some, it's really hard to tell if this is graft or a daughter *taking a pay cut* to do her father a favour.

Sorry, man, he might be a dick for a million other reasons, but that one doesn't hold water without a LOT more detail.