Down with the kidsIn my day, busy parents had a way of juggling the pressures of high profile careers and bringing up children, viz packing the brats off to boarding school as soon as they could walk and forgetting about them until graduation day. Indeed, so successful was this approach that I forgot about one of my offspring altogether until he turned up on the doorstep in cap and gown. Turns out all those payments to Sebastian Clarke were nothing to do with my network of off-shore SPVs after all. Fortunately I quickly got used to the idea and grew to like him. But it seems that this is...