Outrage merchant the Daily Mail is at is again farming disability hate for clicks. And as has become its persistent favourite pastime of late, the shitrag is targeting people living with mental health conditions.

In particular, the tabloid published an article implying people living with anxiety are defrauding the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare system.

The article simultaneously managed to paint not-for-profits offering support to disabled people navigating the enormously inaccessible personal independence payment (PIP) application process as abettors and enablers of this benefit fraud, instead of the helpful organisations they actually are.

The Mail on Sunday ran with the headline:

Taxpayers shelling out £800 a MINUTE in disability benefits to people claiming to suffer from ‘anxiety’ – as private firms cash in by coaching claimants in exchange for half their payout

According to the article, this is because in 2025, PIP payments for anxiety equated to £427 million. The maths is correct, but it’s entirely unclear where it got that figure from.

Of course, the right-wing rag racket relies on this. Without providing details on how it got to that conclusion, it’s impossible to properly scrutinise its claims, and that’s the whole point. It can pull attention-grabbing figures out of its own arse, but the public is meant to believe it because that’s what its ‘exclusive’ exposé has put in print.

DWP processes are grueling and inaccessible

It’s baseless regardless. For one, whatever figures the Mail has used of people claiming PIP for anxiety, it’s already false anyway. Official data on PIP communicates that people claiming it are living with anxiety conditions. That’s to say, they aren’t necessarily claiming for anxiety alone or even with anxiety as the primary condition.

However, the bigger point here is that people who are claiming PIP for anxiety would be perfectly entitled to do so because it’s been awarded to them after the DWP’s grueling assessment process.

Naturally though, the Daily Mail being the right-wing ghoul it is made sure to suggest PIP is easy to obtain, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Instead of highlighting the reality — that data shows of those with anxiety who apply for PIP, well below half actually manage to get the financial support — the Mail amped up its ‘sickfleuncer’ outrage-baiting.

Only this time, it threw in an ‘investigation’ claiming to uncover a “thriving benefits industry” that is:

cashing in on Britain’s disability benefits boom by coaching claimants through the system in exchange for pocketing half of any government payout.

Naturally, the shadow secretary for work and pensions, Helen Whately, made a cameo to put her hypocritical saviourism on full display.

She told the Mail:

Benefit-fixers make a fast buck on the backs of the vulnerable. Cash from people who work hard and live within their means goes straight to the coffers of these chancers.

Because disabled people having agency to pay firms for help with complex paperwork, as an access need, is inherently fraudulent. I’m sure the Mail will be running an undercover sting on rich people paying tax advisors to exploit loopholes any day now.

Scroungers and scammers: Two sides of the Mail’s vilifying coin

These organisations wouldn’t need to assist people with claims if the DWP made its process accessible in the first place. If it wasn’t wrongly denying PIP to huge numbers of disabled people and actively trying to trip them up all the while.

The Mail’s outrage essentially boils down to the fact these firms charge people for their services, but it conveniently glosses over the fact the majority of the advice these companies offer is free of charge. After vilifying disabled people for clicks, it’s a little hard to swallow that the Mail now suddenly gives a shit about their exploitation.

Ultimately, that’s not what it’s gunning for with this. Its undercover journalists asked leading questions, designed to entrap the organisations so as to paint them as scammers.

A reporter supposedly asking for help with PIP forms because they “couldn’t be bothered to do it myself” says more about the stigmatising ‘lazy scrounger’ perception of the Mail’s wannabe investigative journalists than anything else.

Giving disabled people advice and support applying for benefits isn’t some fucking huge fraud industry, but the Mail sure wants readers to think that.

Maligning claimants with mental health conditions

The Daily Mail’s divisive rhetoric is there to sow hate towards disabled communities. In particular, it’s targeting vulnerable groups it wants the public to see as undeserving of support.

Research from the Canary previously found the right-wing media cranked up its attacks on disabled benefit claimants by 1130% between 2023 and 2024. Nearly half of these scapegoated claimants living with mental health conditions.

It has been apparent for some time that the right’s agenda is to whip up politically-motivated moral panic over mental health disability benefit claims.

In tandem with Labour’s attempts to peddle mental health over-diagnosis — including a whole damn review to prove it led by a controversial psychiatrist — the Mail’s article is just another propaganda piece to manufacture consent for future PIP cuts.

The timing is therefore no big coincidence either. The Mail is ramping up its vilification of PIP claimants right as the DWP is carrying out the Timms Review call for evidence.

Overall, this is the Mail doing what it does best: profiting from a bigotry ‘boom’ of its own machinations and lining the pockets of billionaires. If anyone’s cashing in off the backs of disabled people’s lives, it’s this callous Labour government and gutter outlets like the Daily Mail dutifully laying the groundwork.

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Three anti-genocide activists have again been found not guilty of violent disorder at an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol.

Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner and Leona Kamio, were all acquitted at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, 13 April.

The three had already defeated the charges when a jury refused to convict them. However, the Starmer regime ordered a retrial and was ‘secretly’ charging them with terrorism by linking the ordinary criminal charges to supposed terrorism, without informing the jury, to allow for longer sentences.

Despite home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s clear intent to make a political example of the trio, the Crown Prosecution Service ultimately informed the court it had no evidence to offer against them.

Judge Justice Johnson formally acquitted the three. Had they been convicted, they could have faced up to 20 years in prison.

The activists are still facing charges for criminal damage. Corner is also charged with grievous bodily harm — in spite of video evidence refuting the claims of police and the Elbit arms maker’s security guards during the first trial.

Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin also face criminal damage charges.

The prosecution is expected to present its case on Wednesday and a jury has been selected.

Palestine Action says its main target is Elbit Systems

Shamefully, Judge Johnson told jurors to ignore any feelings they have about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the fact that the High Court has ruled the government’s ‘terrorism’ ban on Palestine Action to be unlawful.

He said:

You will appreciate it is vitally important that you judge the case only on the evidence, not on the basis of what the defendants, or you, the home secretary, the government or anyone else thinks about Palestine Action and events in the Middle East.

He then told jurors that whether they think the defendants “had some moral justification is completely beside the point” before reminding them that their views on the war in Gaza are “completely irrelevant to your job in this case”.

In fact, this is untrue. Juries have an absolute legal right to judge according to their conscience, but both the state and the courts now routinely try to obscure this and even to punish those who remind jurors of their right.

The judge also told the jury to ignore any protesters outside court. Supporters gathered with signs and Palestinian flags during the hearing.

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An Israeli non-profit has been filmed offering to help UK citizens move to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of Israel’s ongoing theft of Palestine.

Shivat Zion (Return to Zion) was set up in 2022 as “the only Aliyah NGO in the UK officially recognised by the Jewish Agency for Israel” to assist British Jews move to Israel. All of the organisation’s staff are Europeans who emigrated to Israel.

During a Zoom call filmed by undercover reporters at Declassified UK, the group boasted that it could obtain UK tax subsidies for its work. It also described living near “Arabs” — Zionist code for indigenous Palestinians — was the only downside.

You’re next to the Arabs. You’ll hear their mosques,” he was recorded saying. “But apart from this, it’s a great living standard.

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Supposedly, the Starmer government considers Israel’s expanding land theft in the West Bank to be a “flagrant violation of international law”. However, the government is apparently allowing Shivat Zion to claim gift aid, despite it not existing as a UK-registered entity.

Israeli non-profit’s actions are ‘deeply’ disturbing

Shivat Zion tells its supporters that it can claim tax refunds on donations through a separate charity, UK Toremet, presumably because the group is claiming the exemption for religious organisations despite Zionism being a political ideology.

UK Toremet told Declassified that it has no “active” relationship with Shivat Zion and hasn’t given any grants to the organisation in the last 12 months”.

The media outlet went on to add:

Declassified can’t verify this claim, but donors to Shivat Zion would have been under the impression that their money would go via UK Toremet in order to benefit from Gift Aid.

Unequivocally so, since Shivat’s fundraising campaign promised that donations from the UK are eligible for gift aid.

But after Declassified contacted the organisation for comment, mentions of charity and tax were removed from its website. The Charity Commission, which had originally approved the scheme, later launched an investigation and said it had issued guidance to UK Toremet after three separate compliance cases relating to Palestine since 2016.

We issued the charity’s trustees with statutory guidance and an action plan, which warned it must comply with the Geneva Conventions Act 1957.

This is similar to the slap on the wrist the commission issued after its investigation into the nakedly political, pro-Israel activities of the so-called Campaign against Antisemitism.

Human rights lawyer, Daniel Machover, told Declassified he was “deeply disturbed” by its findings and said it was “inexcusable” to claim that these donations were eligible for gift aid.

Israel and its supporters are always the victims

Like other signatory nations, the UK is under the International Court of Justice’s obligation “not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”.

Challenged about its activities, the group’s Netherlands-Israeli CEO, Shraga Evers, resorted to foul abuse. With typical Israeli arrogance and victimhood, Evers referred to undercover anti-Zionist Jew, Emily, who drove the investigation, as a ‘kapo’ — the term for Jews who collaborated with the Nazis.

We assist new Olim [migrants] regardless of where they choose to settle and provide support that falls under social affairs activities of which new immigrants are part.

Furthermore, while I do not feel any need to apologize for living as a Jew in Judea — neither to you nor to the aforementioned individual — it further underlines the deceptive manner in which elements of the anti-Semitic lobby, together with a handful of helpful modern-day Kapos, are operating.

Emily described the insidious and carefully crafted manipulation of ‘aliyah’ events:

It was quite terrifying how appealing it was. If I wasn’t so steadfast in my anti-Zionism, how easily one could be persuaded to do this.

But for Palestinians, life under occupation and the malignant spread of illegal settlements is brutal. While Gaza has suffered genocide, Palestinians in the West Bank have been subjected to intensified settler attacks, including murders, crop burning and poisoning or destruction of water sources.

Prize-winning Palestinian peace activist, Issa Amro, who is frequently attacked by the settlers, said they “get quality life on the expense of the basic rights of the Palestinians”.

Efrat is a settlement – and to live there, it’s a war crime.

Palestinians are not even allowed to travel on the road leading to their own historic village near the Efrat settlement, promoted by Shivat Zion.

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The Bank of England has warned that supermarkets across the UK could bring in surge pricing to extract more profit from people’s need to eat.

Supermarkets may be planning to increase the amount shoppers pay for food when demand is high, which is already the situation for people using corporations like Amazon and Uber.

Computerised displays could pave the way for price hikes in supermarkets like Morrisons, which will soon have these price labels in all 497 of its stores.

Speaking of the possibility of ‘surge pricing’, Clive Black, of investment bank Shore Capital, told the Times:

Whether that is in the interest of shoppers or shareholders is a moot point.

The thing is, people buying food aren’t really shoppers. That’s like saying people buying electricity or water are ‘shopping’, when these are essentials.

Supermarkets prioritise excessive profit

‘Greedflation’ has already defined the cost of living crisis with companies using energy inflation and tax rises as cover for huge profits.

Lidl’s operating profit rose by nearly 300% — from £79 million in 2021 to £314 million in 2025.

Similarly, Aldi’s operating profit rose from £289 million in 2020 to £435 million in 2025, representing a 51% increase over five years (including the Covid years).

This isn’t down to people switching to cheaper options. Tesco’s operating profit leapt 72% — from £1.8 billion in 2020/21 to £3.1 billion in 2024/25. Sainsbury’s operating profit has risen slightly over the same period.

It’s greedflation, and now supermarkets want more through increased prices during high demand despite most people working during the same time periods, meaning they will be buying food at similar times.

What’s the solution?

There is a solution to the wealth extraction. Supermarkets should be not-for-profit because they are only middle-manning between the agriculture sector and humans who need food. One option is for non-profit food distribution centres (but with a fun name) to offer food largely delivered via automated vans.

That’s a major way an administration could tackle the cost of living crisis.

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The historic second Global Sumud Flotilla has departed from Barcelona. The flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal, decades-long siege on Gaza and deliver much-needed humanitarian aid.

Described by organisers as ‘the largest civilian-led flotilla mission in history,’ the convoy of over 70 vessels departed from Port Moll de la Fusta on Sunday 12 April 2026.

In a press release, organisers have described the urgency of their mission:

From family loss and displacement, to the collapse of governments and international institutions, to the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s hospitals, coastlines, fisheries, farmland, and water systems, [we come] to the collective decision that civil society must now move where states have failed.

1,000 set sail on the Global Sumud Flotilla

The flotilla carries a solidarity contingent of nearly 1,000 healthcare and humanitarian workers from more than 70 countries, alongside journalists and notable public figures.

Following a major international press conference, Global Sumud Flotilla organisers stated that the activists’ mission seeks to transform ‘cumulative grief into a coordinated global escalation of solidarity on land and sea.’ They also described the flotilla as:

a direct civilian intervention against genocide, siege, ecocide, forced starvation, and the global systems that sustain them.

Zionist lies exposed

The press conference hosted speakers from Gaza, Lebanon, Indonesia, North Africa and Europe, alongside global humanitarian networks.

Speakers exposed the Zionist ‘ceasefire’ lie and denounced consistent Israeli-blocked aid passages, which necessitate the urgent civilian mission.

They also recounted the IOF’s consistent, targeted murder of humanitarian and medical workers, inhumane weaponisation of starvation, and mounting regional Zionist impunity across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran and beyond.

The Global Sumud Flotilla Steering Committee stated previously that ‘We Refuse To Wait‘ and reiterated this widespread feeling of urgency once again:

Families who have lost everything, doctors who have worked inside collapsing hospitals, organizers who have watched governments enable mass death, and movements rising across continents all arrived at the same conclusion: waiting costs Palestinian lives.

The flotilla now moves as part of a wider global escalation to confront siege, impunity, and the political systems that make both possible.

Urgent humanitarian missions converge

The Global Sumud Flotilla convoy is joined by Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise and Open Arms boats, bringing globally recognised civil society actors into the mission’s fold.

Arctic Sunrise said that they offer ‘strategic maritime support, technical expertise, and transit safety coordination.’ Meanwhile, ‘Open Arms expands the mission’s humanitarian protection framework, emergency response capacity, and civilian safeguarding architecture.’

This ethos was replicated by Amnesty International’s legal and political warning to Mediterranean states and surrounding actors urging them to ensure safe passage.

Amnesty’s lawyers urge ‘against any repeat of unlawful interceptions, arbitrary detention, or abuse of civilian activists.’

Land and sea campaigns for the Global Sumud Flotilla

The 2026 sea mission is being coordinated in time with We Rise, a land campaign of comparable magnitude to achieve shared objectives in challenging Zionist impunity.

Global Sumud Flotilla describe We Rise as:

a synchronized international campaign designed to escalate political, economic, and social pressure through coordinated land mobilizations as the [GSF] fleet advances.

The campaign includes port shutdowns targeting weapons supply chains; public square art and cultural interventions; and boycott and divestment escalations.

Additionally, organizers detailed two overland convoys galvanizing solidarity across North Africa and Asia and breaking Israel’s illegal siege by land.

The flotilla now moves not as a single maritime action, but as the sea anchor of a widening international uprising.

Past flotilla missions abused

Amnesty International’s warning to neighbouring states follows on from Zionist crimes against the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla mission – the largest of its kind until now.

In 2025, IOF operators firebombed vessels with drones in Tunisian territory. IOF navy goons also illegally boarded Global Sumud Flotilla vessels in international waters. They detained activists and subjected them to systemic and cruel abuse.

Physical and mental abuse of detained Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists was reported and corroborated by many of those held hostage in Israeli prisons. They reported inhumane treatment, psychological torture such as sleep deprivation, and sexual humiliation.

Multiple victims, mainly Palestinians, reported sexual violence by IOF soldiers and Israeli prison guards. There is undeniable evidence that it is explicit Zionist policy. The UN’s Commission of Inquiry confirmed these grave, repeated sexual crimes n mid-March 2026.

The abuses inflicted on the 2025 captives is only outmatched by Zionist crimes against the 2010 Gaza Flotilla, comprised of six boats, which the IOF navy illegally raided.

During the raid, Zionist forces executed nine humanitarian activists, mainly from Türkiye, and injured another 30, one of whom later died from his wounds.

The UNHRC’s 2011 report stated that Israel’s actions were illegal, “disproportionate” and “betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality,” with evidence of “wilful killing.”

Zionist forces confiscated or destroyed photographic evidence to cover their crimes—parallel with their unprecedented murders of journalists at scale today.

Featured image via Global Sumud Flotilla