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One WTF thing I found when I was working in the charity sector was that the Daily Mail has a couple of journalists who specialise in monitoring the charity sector to write attack articles. This is presumably both to stoke outrage about do-gooders and and make their readers feel better about not contributing to organisations who want to help those in need. The fact that some people get up every morning and work out ways to undermine charities boggles my mind.
They launched a major attack on the RNLI because it does some work abroad in Tanzania and Bangladesh, countries with the highest rates of drowning in the world (which has been in line with the RNLI's mission for 150 yrs). The stories were 'your money is buying burqinis for Muslamic forrins' dog-whistle filth. Happily, as in the current case, the RNLI had a surge in donations as a result.
Beginning to think an evil genius in the RNLI is planting these stories as part of their fundraising strategy.