Handshakes: Golden and Otherwise

Vulgar Marxism makes the brilliant suggestion of pre-emptive redundancies for current PhD students to keep them out of the British university system. From what is emerging from the disaster of that system, it's no wonder I hear so many pommie accents around Australian Universities these days - something about rodents and sinking ships.

Anyway, VM also makes a distinction between the ki$$-off or golden handshake/parachute and the 'Yarram handshake'. As VM writes,

one involves the payment of a l...