Reference :- Andy Bolt , popular journalist and world renowned climate scientist , has suddenly gone quiet .

Reference :-    What has become of Sky News journalist and legend in his own mind , Andy Bolt ?  Is he off for Christmas , or what ?

Merry Saturnalia , Andy .   Is everything OK ?   It's been disappointing to dial up Sky News on the wireless and not find you there with a fresh  ground breaking story .  Nobody disparages teenage girls or aborigines better than you , and where else can we look to find your special brand of thinly veiled racial vilification ?

 Is the weather putting you off ?   The media are quoting a great many shocking  heat wave , fire , and drought statistics of late .  The last time I saw that many records broken was when my son , Ken junior,  accidentally backed the ute over my prized box of Vera Lynn 78's . 

  And what was that story you ran titled  "Amazing new development "  all about ?   I listened eagerly , expecting perhaps something about quantum computers or tokamak fusion reactors , and it was just some incomprehensible codswallop intended to humiliate that gentle  Bruce Pascoe chap who likes aborigines.   Not exactly " amazing "  is it Andy ?

 What you need is a fresh angle , before Sky News starts offering you redundancy packages .  Running with that  climate hoax crusade hasn't gone well , and you are starting to sound like a broken record yourself .  It just isn't very convincing when the scientists announce  dust storms of unprecedented severity , and you respond by digging out a poem written in 1878 that says it was so dusty then that the crows flew backwards , or something . 

 So Andy ,  my son Ken junior reckons you should start a cooking show .  By the middle of next year food will probably be more expensive than a decent defence lawyer, and you well know how they charge .   But instead of demonstrating the usual sumptuous spread of tasty vittles , you could show people how to feed a hungry family on a tight budget , when a single idaho potato costs a fiver .  You could film it in the kitchen out here on the farm if you like . We do everything by hand , whisking and mashing with various simple utensils.  The saving on electricity is considerable .  

 I pointed out to Ken junior that a cooking show doesn't leave much opportunity for your trademark thinly veiled vilification and hate mongering .  But he is full of great ideas .  How's this , for example?    " And now a dollop of good old English mustard , not that insipid Dijon stuff made by the spiteful socialist French . "    Or ,   "  And now lets get this chicken in the oven before a cohort of hypocritical animal rights activists arrives , the grill of their car splattered with murdered  insects " . 
 You know Andy , I reckon he is on to something .   

Your comrade ,  Ken