Scary, dangerous and bad for your weekends: Going undercover with the far-right

Back in 2022, Harry Shukman was working for The Mill as an editor. Then he made a dramatic career choice

By Shannon Keating

During the spring of 2023, undercover reporter Harry Shukman sat among a group of far-right campaigners in a fortified back patio belonging to Paul Golding, the Salford-based leader of Britain First, and he was terrified. Shukman had spent the day pamphleting for the party under a secret identity – his fellow pamphleteers knew him as C…