In August, The Spectator began to investigate allegations that Harry Shukman, a 33-year-old freelance journalist, had used a fake British passport as part of a two-year undercover investigation into the far-right in Britain which was sponsored by Hope Not Hate. We published an article about this in our 6 September issue titled: ‘Dirty tricks: the sinister tactics of Hope Not Hate.’ As a result of correspondence from their lawyers, we now know the passport was not ‘fake’ at all: the true story is even more interesting.

Whatever the technicalities of the deed poll process, the essential question is an ethical one

Shukman’s 12-month undercover investigation led to a series of articles in the Guardian , a documentary broadcast by Channel 4 and a book published by Penguin in May called Y

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