DES FREEDMAN
Unlike Russia's war on Ukraine, British journalists rarely highlight the illegality of the US-Israeli attack on Iran
The UK media's take on the use of 'hard power' depends entirely on who's exercising it.
The labelling of Russia's war in Ukraine in February 2022 was clear from the start. According to the Nexis database, 12,700 stories across the UK media in the first week of the war were focused on what was unequivocally referred to as Russia's "invasion of Ukraine".