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Tabloid zeal for bombing the Middle East misses that times are changing

Papers are trying to stir up enthusiasm for Britain’s time-old tradition of bombing Arabs, but is public mood shifting?

By Adam Ramsay
Tabloid zeal for bombing the Middle East misses that times are changing
Britain's papers are trying to stir up enthusiasm for the US-UK air strikes in Yemen | Pexels/The Sun/The Daily Mail/The Daily Telegraph
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“Bombs rained down from fighter jets under the cover of darkness as the UK and US pummelled Houthi targets in response to their Red Sea attacks,” pants The Sun. “The bold mission saw at least 60 targets hit in 16 locations across Yemen last night after the Iran-backed terror proxy threatened the West”.

The tabloid no longer publishes pictures of topless women, but it continues to get excited over war porn.

Under the headline “Deadly Blitz”, the UK’s most-read paper this morning ran on its website propaganda videos, provided by the Ministry of Defence, of jets taking off from the UK’s military bases in Cyprus and bombing Yemen.

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