Simone Collins remembers the moment her guard came down. She was speaking to a polite, slightly self-effacing British man who had introduced himself, over email, as Christopher Morton, a wealthy philanthropist who was interested in donating to her charity, which promotes pronatalism. Pronatalism can be a controversial political cause, so Simone was understandably cautious that he might be too good to be true. To allay her fears, he sent her a photograph of a passport in that name. For Collins, it was proof that Morton was who he claimed to be.

Months later, she realised that ‘Christopher Morton’ was in fact Harry Shukman, a British journalist who had been working undercover for Hope Not Hate, an ‘anti-fascist’ organisation whose charitable arm has received funding from the British governm

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