"Spectator:" A "Guardian" Writer Used a Fake Passport to Dupe Pro-Natalists

The passport said he was "Christopher Morton," but he really is leftist activist Harry Shukman.

From The Guardian:

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right

This article is more than 4 months old

Working for Hope Not Hate, I infiltrated an extremist organisation, befriended its members and got to work investigating their political connections

By Harry Shukman

Thu 24 Apr 2025 00.00 EDT

… For more than a year, I went undercover in the British far right. Using the pseudonym Chris, I spent time with nine different groups of extremists. Among them were a political party, a circle of Holocaust deniers and an organisation backed by an American tech tycoon that sought to prove black people are genetically less intelligent than white people. …

Hope Not Hate focuses on monitoring, researching and campaigning against the far right.

Hope Not Hate is kind of like a British Southern Poverty Law Center. But whereas Morris Dees is a junk mail genius who piled up a colossal surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars before being fired from SPLC, allegedly for being a racist horndog around his female employees (Morris had been married six times, last I checked) — although I suspect his real offense was being kind of a cheapskate who liked raising money more than spending it on his staffers — the Hope Not Hate NGO takes Home Office grants of British taxpayer money.

I contacted their research team in late 2022 to discuss working together. …

Over a pint of Guinness, Joe Mulhall, the head of the research team and a veteran anti-fascist, asked if I would like to team up for a long-term infiltration. An undercover project in which I became close to the leaders of a far-right group could, Mulhall explained, disrupt their operation. The thrill of working undercover was a draw, but I had a personal stake in this. I come from a Jewish family. One side fled the Nazi invasion of France; the other emigrated from the Russian Pale of Settlement that restricted how Jews could live and work. I am fascinated and maddened by the persistence of antisemitic prejudice, and the adaptation of old tropes now being used against Muslims. …

Our investigation stalled, however. Chris, with his lack of race science expertise and tedious corporate job, was not an exciting person to meet. In order to get closer to [Matthew] Frost and his team, Hermansson and I decided that we would tweak the character of Chris. Instead of an office drone, he had now come into a fat inheritance and was interested in donating a chunk of it to rightwing projects.

Money talks, we soon discovered. Offering to invest in Aporia instantly opened up a meeting with Frost…

Much of this Guardian’s article’s Shocking Revelations consist of quoting statements Shukman’s ideological foes have made in public, but sound more sinister in the context of an Undercover Investigation. E.g.,

[Andrew Sabisky] did not last long. Weeks into his employment [by Dominic Cummings], the press found Sabisky’s detailed [public] writings on race differences and IQ. Among his comments was the claim that in America, there are “a far greater percentage of blacks than whites in the range of IQs 75 or below, at which point we are close to the typical boundary for mild mental retardation”.

Well, is that true?

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