I think the percentage that would potentially hold a more ' middle eastern / southern Asian / Arabic' moral and political view of the world is the UK is much bigger though, and growing if you consider three quarters of a million new nationals last year.Not really. While the UK's Middle Eastern population is growing, it is proportionately small (only 0.6% of the total is Arab, for example). There is a very rich cluster with properties and funds, mostly in central London. The main factors are inward investment from the fossil fuel industry and geopolitics, with the West keen for obvious reasons to keep countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar on side. Rishi Sunak is on his way to the UAE this week for COP28, so some tricky diplomacy there over the Telegraph sale.
Having said that, I also realise that English may well not be the first language of a sizeable percentage of them and so many would likely prefer to read news in their native tongue online than, through, say a printed Telegraph, however it reinvented itself.
In that sense newspapers , even online, will not likely bridge any chasms in society and will likely simply allow people to encamp further, by reading the news at they like it presented. Personally I find all the press, with very rare exception, sickeningly narrative driven in how they report certain ' incidents'.
That, sadly drives me towards youtube and twitter for independent footage and comment , not bankrolled by Saudi or Murdoch or whoever. The danger with that, of course, is that those people may also be very agenda driven combined with strong money making motives and little accountability. The only answer for me is to hear what lots of different groups / outlets say and try and make an assessment, reading between the lines.
The big mystery, for me, is how current bedfellows in newspaper biasses are not simultaneously in complete collision and that makes me slightly, I stress, more open to conspiracy theory than I ever was.