I knew Fox News was being removed from showing in the UK, but I hadn’t realised it is already gone. Obviously good, though I did dip in now and again to see what the rednecks were thinking and saying. However, at the risk this could have ever persuaded someone vulnerable, it is best disappeared from here at least. With today’s news about National Action, this load of noxious gas doesn’t need any further fueling.

It does give me the opportunity to reprise my poem about Fox News, first published at International Times in April, 2015. Eschewing the Shakespearean or Petrarchan models, I went instead for the more apt Scatological:

Fox News List Sonnet [*]

Fox News: shit that sticks to the bottom of shoes
Fox News: facts and figures to ignore and abuse
Fox News: slobber at the end of an afternoon snooze
Fox News: sensationalist suggestion that simmers and stews
Fox News Deadline: better on time than the truth you lose
Fox News: aberrant cell from the primordial ooze
Fox News: detection that ignores all of the clues
Fox News: bits and pieces a piss-artist spews
Fox News: polka appropriation of genuine blues
Fox News Headline: Terrorists Not Iceberg Sink Titanic Cruise
Fox News: candourless in cunning this Canidae eschews
Fox News: determined only in the lies they choose
Fox News: whose existence corrupts poetry’s muse
Fox News: so shit lining bowls of unflushable loos

[*] News Flash: Karl Rove adamant he has irrevocable proof that sonnet is 13-line poem that never rhymes;
[*] writer cites penultimate line as ultimate disclaimer