All language subtitles for Undercover.Exposing.The.Far.Right.2024.

This programme contains very strong
and discriminatory language
including racist terms

So, erm, people might not know,

but we've been running
an undercover operation

for a year-plus now,
and it's coming to an end.

Is this... Are we the only
people that know?

Yeah.

And so we keep it that way.

We are going to have
to be kind of super cautious.

The main story is International
Race Science Network,

and it brings together sort
of intellectual, far-right people.

They have PhDs and they're
academics, many of them.

But I don't think that we
had anticipated

the kind of things that we would
find out.

You should be enormously proud about
what you've managed to achieve.

But we need to start focusing

a lot of energy on working out
which way

the rabbit jumps when
the story breaks.

Which ones are the physical threats?

Also, how are you
going to prepare your family?

How are you
going to prepare your friends?

There's lots of these complex
emotions that are

going to happen in
the next six months.

I believe it's justified,
but there are some sort of

conflicted feelings about how
I've had to lie to them,

and I'll be betraying them.

So I definitely don't feel like
I'm on, like, a moral high horse.

Like, I'm going to be turning
around to some people

and saying, "My name's not Chris.
I'm the person you hate the most."

That's the camera unit.

These are our button options.

One, two, three.
That's going to be the fake button.

PHONE VIBRATES

He should be here,
like, around now.

In this project, I'm the handler
running an undercover source.

I'm here to make sure he's safe.

It's about prepping him,
and the majority is just that -

good prep is what makes
someone safe.

KNOCK AT DOOR

Hey. Morning.

How are you doing? Good to see you.

So I'll show you the kit.

I've got two memory cards. 32GB.

OK, so all you have
to do is just turn it on.

Wait till it starts recording.

Yeah. Three batteries.

The bigger one makes it a bit
heavier. That should be six hours.

So that would be enough
for Saturday.

When you learn how to do it,
you can do it quite quickly.

Yeah.

Great.

I'm a journalist that's very
interested in the far-right,

and before starting on this project,

I was doing a few different
undercover hits here and there.

I've not used a hidden camera,

and this weekend I'll be wearing
one for the first time.

If you're not in a position
to switch, don't do it.

We get what we get.

I wouldn't be able to do this if
I was just going openly as a

journalist. These groups are very
sensitive to infiltration and media.

Does it come in other colours?

Yeah, it's Uniqlo.
Comes in, like, 500 colours.

And then when you screw
that button on there...

Last week, someone was talking
about wanting

to gun down immigrants in
the Channel.

There are moments when someone will
say something about wanting

to murder Jews or immigrants,

or they think the Holocaust
is a fiction,

and you feel a justification
for going about what you're doing.

Right. So that one looks like that.
Yeah.

And those will go there.

That looks OK. That's so cool,
I've got to stick this on.

Infiltration, going undercover,
whatever you want to call it,

is a long-running strategy.

It's been around since after
the war, really.

So these groups, they are aware.

Absolutely. No question.
It's fine that they know,

as long as they don't know who.

The far-right are dangerous.

Their ideas encourage violence

even if they're not explicitly
calling for it,

and that's something all of us
want to stop.

What do we think?

Yeah, that's going to work.
Great.

I mean, I think it looks quite good,
I must say.

As a very, very white guy,

you have access to things
and can make use of that.

Be better if it was pointing
a bit more up.

You see, like, it's never
going to be perfect.

You're going to get a lot of sort of
half faces of people.

It's just how it is.
Just be casual with the camera.

Try to forget about it, actually.

It's going to be fine.

Infiltration is still
really important.

The more information we have, the
more we know what we're dealing

with. And ultimately,
and that's our core mission,

the more that we can stop hate.

We look at the communities
who are susceptible to

the far-right and then the issues
and policies that give rise to them.

It's a mixture of keeping
people safe

and also understanding, you know,

what gives the far-right
their power.

Our researchers might be following
a paper trail online.

They might be looking at some

of these quite intense
social networks.

And then, on another day,
undercover in some of

the biggest fascist groups
in Europe.

The far-right aren't like many
other groups.

The far-right often present one
image to the world

and what they're saying when they
think no-one's listening is

different, it's often more extreme.
And so for us, if we really

want to understand what
they're planning,

who they are, who's the most
dangerous people, we understand

we have to be in the room when they
think no-one's listening.

So the first really big undercover
assignment was this conference

in Tallinn, and we knew that

a lot of British people
would be going.

It's one of the biggest dates
in the far-right calendar.

This conference connects

alt-right people from across Europe
and the US.

And there was a good chance that
a lot of

the big players would go there.

We are interested in the context -
who's coming? Who's funding this?

Because that's really why these
conferences happen.

They're about networking.

So I'm here to get
a sort of lay of the land.

Opposite their hotel, there's
another hotel that overlooks

the small alleyway where
the entrance is.

This is all right.

Yeah.

It is very exciting
going undercover.

It's also...crazy.

You're briefly becoming
a different person.

There are a number of rules you have
to follow when going undercover.

You need to know your story
so you don't misspeak,

so that you are consistent.

Chris, the person I'm pretending
to be, is from rural Cambridgeshire.

Don't come across as too curious.

You have to be patient,
let it come to you.

He is a strategy consultant
specialising in support function

optimisation, which is something

so tedious that it hopefully
does not elicit

a second or third question.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

We try to challenge
the idea that fascists

and Nazis all wave swastika flags

and throw Hitler salutes.

They do that too, that happens,

but it doesn't always look
like that.

Morning.

APPLAUSE

Here we are. How are things going?

Good.

Ryan? Yeah, I know exactly who this
is. He's interesting.

But we'll debrief after.
Yeah. OK. Yeah, yeah.

You've been away too long. OK.

I had an attack of chronic diarrhoea
or something like that.

HE LAUGHS
You had a really bad one.

He talked to a really important
figure now, that I didn't know was

going to be here,
but I know quite a lot about.

He's involved in a podcast called
The Absolute State Of Britain,

which is one of
the more extreme British podcasts.

It's very Nazi, very anti-Semitic.

Harry stayed calm.
He made connections.

People spoke to him
and volunteered information.

The point of today is to celebrate

the campaign against fascism.

Extreme right-wing ideas has moved
into the mainstream.

I was born in Isleworth, Hounslow.

My mother is Mauritian,
so she came to Britain in 1961.

I remember, as a kid, her being
on the end of racist abuse.

I remember walking down the street
with her once when some bloke came

up and started screaming at her.

I mean, I don't look mixed heritage,

but I go dark quite quickly
in the sun.

So when we used
to go on holidays as a kid,

I used to sit in a tent.
I wouldn't go out in the sun.

We want to tell you about
a new party.

I'd pretend to my family
I didn't like the sun,

but it wasn't that at all.

It was simply because if
I got darker, then I got bullied.

The National Front has
grown rapidly.

We need to stop immigration

and give Britain back to
the British people.

You know, I look back on it with
some kind of shame in a way

that, you know, I hid.
I hid from racists.

Millions see parts of this already
overcrowded country

being taken over by people

with an entirely foreign way
of life.

We intend that it shall be stopped.

I remember the National Front Party
political broadcast,

and I remember being
really horrified

because in it they said that
their policy was

to send people home within
six months.

People who weren't born in Britain,
they'd send them home within

six months. And I was petrified
that my mum was about

to get picked up and sent home.

That shaped the person I am.

I only ever wanted to do one thing,
and that was fight fascism.

A lot of this archive was
collected by anti-fascists,

that were active, kind of obviously
well before I was even born.

And so we've got stuff like

lots of the original union movement

and British Union
of Fascist membership cards.

We've even got, like, the British
Union of Fascist ledgers of members

and who was who,
and all that sort of stuff.

So, like, who's paid their dues
and all that sort of thing.

These were kind of the armbands that
they would wear at their meetings.

These are really racist stickers,

and these were from a group called
the British Movement,

a neo-Nazi group in
the postwar period.

And this is the thing about this
archive, right, there's all these

horrifying artefacts themselves,
but in-between the shelves are

the stories of anti-fascists who
went out and, in some senses,

risked their lives
to make sure that what

the far-right were up to over
the last 100 years

people found out about,
and we could try and stop.

1923. You see the emergence of
a group in the UK

called the British Fascisti.

And that very first meeting was
disrupted by anti-fascists.

This is before the Holocaust.

This is before the Nazis were
in power in Germany.

Italy has only just fallen
to Mussolini.

A group of people that
realised instantly

the danger that fascism posed,
and mobilised against it.

And so it's the 100th anniversary
of kind of

the birth of the movement that,
I think, that

we feel that Hope Not Hate is
still a part of, you know?

This is from July 1937. Action,
which was the newspaper

of Oswald Mosley's
British Union of Fascists,

and it's about the Battle
of Cable Street from 1936

where the anti-fascists stopped
the Mosley's marchers.

And so, yeah, I mean,

I'm unbelievably proud
to be part of that movement.

Information is power.

We would not have stopped
the plot to kill Rosie Cooper,

the MP, if it wasn't for
a person being inside

the room reporting information.

NEWS REPORTER: Jack Renshaw
planned to kill the Labour MP

and threatened to kill
a police officer.

In World War II, we took
the wrong side.

We should have been fighting
the communists.

The plan was exposed because there
was a member inside

the group who was working
undercover

for the anti-racism organisation
Hope Not Hate.

I was to be murdered to send
a message to the state,

to send a message to this place.

Our freedoms, our way of life, our
democracy is under threat.

It's our role to look at

the whole spectrum
of what we mean by radical right,

far-right, fascist. But also
to be really clear

about the differences
between those groups.

Right now,
it's a very febrile moment.

We've come off the back
of a pandemic.

We've got a
cost of living crisis here -

people can't afford
to heat their homes

and feed their children.
And when people are angry,

and in many cases right to be angry,

but they're angry
and they're scared,

the far-right know that
that's their moment.

What marks these events out
is their focus on intellectualism.

They often term these things
race science,

but that's a terrible term.

It's racism masquerading as science
in order to sound more legitimate.

PHONE PINGS

OK, Harry is on his way.

Hello! Hey.

How are you doing? OK.

We met a guy called Matt, a Brit.

He runs a Substack called, er, Af...

No, not Amphora...

Aporia. It's a HBD for human
biodiversity Substack.

The words banded about are terms
like HBD or human biodiversity,

evolutionary psychology,

race realism.

All of these terms mean
a similar thing,

that there are inherent
differences between the races,

especially when it comes
to intelligence.

The result of that is
the idea that some

groups of people are genetically
superior to others.

Is it this guy, then?

Yeah, that's him. Matt.

No, I don't know him.

It's quite a different crowd from
the people you met last time.

Matt Archer. Here we go.

What's his background, this Matt?

His backpack said something like
"Kensington".

So, Londoner. Mm-hm.

We met a lot of people at Tallinn,

but by far the most fascinating
was Matt.

He seemed to be very connected.
He spoke to everyone

and people had a lot of
respect for him.

Cambridge-educated, very
well-spoken, well put together.

He says that he's got a Silicon
Valley investor

that has given him money
to make this into a proper project.

Matt said that it wasn't
a household name,

but was one of the wealthiest people
in the American tech scene.

This is so much to work on. There's
so many threads to pick up here.

Yeah. Especially the money stuff.

A rumour that we had heard at this
weekend in Tallinn was that

Aporia might have had some type
of connection

to this thing called
the Pioneer Fund.

Yeah, exactly. And what's this
Pioneer Fund? Have you heard of it?

Mm.

The Pioneer Fund is one of the

oldest race science funding
organisations

in the world.
But everyone thinks it's defunct.

See what you can find about it.
Like, ask.

The Pioneer Fund had been set up by

Americans who were interested in
advancing research into eugenics.

It's inspired by Nazi Germany

and there were collaborations
with the Nazi regime.

The Pioneer Fund promoted

and screened actual Nazi propaganda
films in the US in the late '30s.

What the Pioneer Fund argued

at the time is that certain groups
of people are exploiting

the state and are getting benefits
and care that they don't deserve.

Films focused on people
with disabilities

and argued for their removal
from the race.

It was the first time that we

realised there was something
potentially very dark

and frightening, because Matt was
describing connections

to money and power.

We see the far-right across
the class spectrum,

the most well-known being
street-level groups.

British and proud!

Child murderer! You make me sick!

CHANTING: Send them home!
Send them home!

We are here because our country
is being invaded

and enough is enough!

THEY CHEER

In order to gain their following,

they're very often using
real concerns that people have

and twisting them into their
much more extreme narrative.

But they're coming here
and posing a threat to our girls.

It's a very common feature of
the demos that people will name

victims or name incidents,
but it's really difficult

to guarantee whether those
things ever happened.

He spent two hours in a taxi

searching for a hotel
to rape her in.

It goes from local residents
being concerned about

a local issue to far-right ideology
and eventually far-right activism.

Let's replace these traitorous
politicians

before they replace us.

When you're from
a white working class community,

you can see how people
can be lied to

and exploited for political means.

I deeply care about where I'm from
and I care about communities

that I feel like are being
exploited,

because I think what those
far-right groups are advocating for

won't help people in
those communities.

They're not going to tackle
the cost of living

by scapegoating asylum seekers.

We will not be replaced!

So, on the Aporia website,

there is a mention
of human biodiversity.

HBD, kind of faux scientific term.

It's a shorthand
to describe their world view.

A few different headlines here.
"An HBD manifesto."

"Can nations have IQs?"

"Why are white people
more honest?"

"Why talk about race differences?"

"The time for noble lies
and cautious caveats is past.

"Race differences in intelligence
are recalcitrant facts

"with pervasive ramifications."

This is a classic framing

because race scientists put
forward that they are just

the pursuers of truth.

It might not be what everyone
wants to hear,

but that's just the way it is.

Matt wants to try and,
as he described it,

move the Overton window on
race science.

The Overton window - it's a concept
that says there's this window

of ideas
the public is willing to accept.

And the far-right know that what
they're advocating is unpalatable

to the majority of people.

And the theory goes that if you

want to change what people think
of as acceptable,

you shouldn't start here.

You should start here,
at the extreme.

Because forcing people
to consider an unthinkable idea,

even if they reject it,

makes all less radical ideas seem
more acceptable by comparison.

It shifts the window in
that direction.

And so if they can get their ideas
mentioned

in the mainstream, then they can
eventually get

to the ultimate goal of
a white-only ethno state.

People don't have to accept
a ridiculous idea.

They just have to get used to it.

Between 2016 and '17,
I spent the year undercover

investigating an intellectual
fascist group in London.

They were well-dressed.
Many of them had PhDs.

The year culminated in the
Charlottesville rally in the US.

The largest gathering of white
supremacists in America in a decade.

Charlottesville turned very violent,

and I was obviously with
the far-right.

They were asked to disperse.
Some are taking on gas masks.

When the far-right demo was over,
this car drove down

a side street that I was just
turning up on

and ploughed through
the counter protest.

SCREAMING

I was maybe three,
four or five metres away.

I saw shoes flying in the air
and people on the ground,

and it was quite traumatic.

The attack left dozens injured
and a 32-year-old woman dead.

Through this year, you would
sometimes question,

like, how influential are they?

What does it actually do
if a bunch of guys sit in

a conference hall
and express racist ideas?

Charlottesville clarified
that question.

When these ideas are taken
to their extreme,

this is where it goes.

I had this idea that race science
kind of died out in the '90s.

It seems like now there's this new
generation who are quite happy

pushing thoroughly debunked science

with a view to achieving
a far-right goal.

So Richard Lynn. You know,

one most famous race scientists
there's ever been.

The fact that they've been able
to get so close to him

is remarkable.

He was the director of
the Pioneer Fund.

Lynn said his ambition was
to rehabilitate eugenics,

and once argued that poor people
should not be encouraged to breed.

Can you tell me what makes you
the dissident psychologist?

I have documented quite large race
differences in intelligence

ranging from the most
intelligent people

who are the Ashkenazi Jews,

followed by the Northeast Asians
from China and Korea

and Japan, then the Europeans,

followed by the North Africans
and South Asians,

and then by the
Native American Indians

and then by the
sub-Saharan Africans.

Mainstream scientists have long said
Lynn's work is deeply flawed

and deliberately misleading.

This interview suggested
to us that there was

a connection there. Richard Lynn,
involved in the Pioneer Fund.

Matt rumoured to be financially
benefiting from it.

It's not concrete proof.
This is a small world,

but it is a connection.

We're going to the High Court today.

Tommy Robinson is appearing.

We provided 247 pages of evidence.

We work to monitor, gather evidence
against, and stop all far-right

leaders and influencers
in the country.

Oh, Tommy, Tommy!

One of the most significant people
we have watched over

the years is Tommy Robinson,

former leader of
the English Defence League.

How did it go today?

It was just the same as usual
attempt at trying

to embarrass me or humiliate me
in front of these guys.

I got convicted by a judge,
not a jury.

Give me a jury and let them decide
whether I told the truth. That's it.

Tommy Robinson is an anti-Muslim,
far-right activist.

He started out as
a football hooligan

and then he ran
the English Defence League.

For the first few months,
he hid his identity.

He always wore balaclavas,
and no-one quite knew who he was.

But it was our researchers who
uncovered his real identity -

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

Tommy Robinson, as he's now called,
sets a touch paper alight.

♪ England till I die

♪ I'm England till I die ♪

That goes across the country in
the years that follow...

Get that fucking camera out my face!

..and it was violent.

It was extreme.

SHOUTING

It was very,
very, very anti-Muslim.

Leicester in 2010.

We had a couple of teams out on the
street photographing and videoing.

SIREN WAILS

And that was the first time
I'd seen him face-to-face.

You know, it was the first time
I saw his eyeballs

and he was an angry man.

The interesting thing that
Tommy has done,

he pivoted to becoming
a far-right influencer

and, as he calls it,
a citizen journalist.

And he was almost one of
the first to do it.

He creates video documentaries,
but he also does these kind of

confrontational videos where he
approaches people

and accuses them of stuff.

You're a paedophile.
You're a paedophile.

It's hard to kind of imagine
how big he became online.

He was bigger than
the Labour Party on Facebook.

He was reaching millions
of people around the world.

And he's moved into this
free speech space.

Tommy Robinson,
thank you very much.

And increasingly,

he has a following in the US.

Tommy Robinson, a hero of free
speech and of nationalism

and of Christianity
and of just basic goodness.

Many American right-wing figures
genuinely believe that

Europe is under siege from Islam

and the West is being invaded
by people of an alien culture that

are consciously being flooded into
Europe to conquer them.

In Finland and Sweden,

Muslims are allowed to
rape children.

They see people like Tommy Robinson
as these front line soldiers.

That's why they were
so supportive of them.

And he got a huge amount
of money out of it.

Sadly, hate pays. Right?

Alongside the race science crowd,

I was also meeting with
the foot soldiers

of the far-right,
groups like Britain First.

Morning, gents. Hiya.
Morning, Chris.

Good to see you.
Ah, Chris! How are you doing?

You're looking very smart.
I like the pinstripes.

Britain First is very different
from the race science people.

They are more stereotypically
a far-right group.

They're focused on action
and they're on the streets.

They try to change people's minds.

They try to gain influence
through elections.

The leader of Britain First
is Paul Golding.

He has a long history in
the far-right in the UK.

However, he presents as this
professional politician.

We've had four months
of relentless action.

All of our activists out there
pounding the streets,

leafletting, canvassing.

I had been with Britain First
for a few months now

and was often filmed for their
prolific social media content.

Britain First and the race
scientists are very different,

but they both believe that
Western civilisation is under threat

because of non-white immigration.

Paul Golding has this more
moderate image of

a kind of...just to the right of
the Tories,

presenting himself as
this Churchill-type patriot.

And yet, he and other
Britain First members

post extreme messages on
social media.

And we wanted to show

the real Britain First,
what they actually believe.

What's going on in Britain First...

We were in this village in Essex.

After going to the refugee centre.

And a woman came up to us and said,
you know,

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Stop handing out these leaflets."
You know, "Leave. Go away."

Paul Golding wanted to leaflet
the next village along,

so he drives off in the minibus
and we follow in a separate car.

They hate being called racist,

but at the same time believe
the immigrants are violent,

fighting-age males.

So, Hope Not Hate are
the dirty tricks brigade of

the British establishment.
This is Nick Lowles.

Nick Lowles is the main face
and the head of the organisation.

We track all far-right figures

so, as well as Britain First,
we've been observing

Tommy Robinson since he first
came on the scene.

"Lennon Consultancy."

We've worked to get him taken off
social media platforms,

we've investigated his finances...

Oh, no, that's Paul Harris, that's
one of his other fake names.

..and we publish reports
and stories about him.

It's meant that we have become
his number-one enemy.

I started to receive takeaways
that I hadn't ordered,

sometimes eight a night -
12, one o'clock in the morning.

Clearly an attempt to harass me
from someone who knew my address.

Nick, how many people have you...
How many people have you paid?

How many? How many sources have you
created to give false information?

I was confronted on
the street outside my house.

Your book is full of created
sources that you've

created with money, blackmail,
drugs. That's not true at all.

By that stage, he knew that I was
writing a book about him,

so he was trying to stop me or to
try to damage my reputation

so no-one would take anything
I wrote seriously.

You paid them. Sure, sure.
We've got evidence of it.

You pay them, you blackmail him,

you sexually assault them
as an organisation.

But in 2023, Robinson made
a huge mistake.

He had already been found liable
for defamation,

lying about a young school boy
who was a Syrian refugee.

Robinson claimed the boy had been
violent towards girls.

He was forbidden by the court
to repeat those lines.

He did it anyway.

He made a film claiming
the court was wrong

and repeated the allegations
against a schoolboy.

The film aired online

but Robinson claimed
to have had nothing to do

with its release.
He said it had been leaked.

So we need to prove that Robinson
had been actively part of the

release, and had in fact added new
material to the film.

Who knows where I am when you're
watching this film now?

The thing about this, right, is the
smugness of it while he's hiding.

Problem is that because he's silly
enough to put up this sort of

content, it means that we were
able to find it out.

So you see the cars there. Cuba.

Well, what we have to then look at
is any hotels near

a main road here,
and he's on the sea.

And then if you can see here,
there's this spiral staircase.

And my colleague then spends
hundreds of hours until he can find

a picture that showed us
that staircase,

and then we could ring up
the hotel.

In April.

So we think he made that
clip in April 2023.

The court will have to decide if he
breached the injunction.

And you've got the power bank cable.

But we don't really know how
many will turn up.

Stay in touch and figure out

if there is a possibility of
meeting up.

See you in a bit.

Some of the senior figures
of Britain First were talking about

going to Poland,
going on this big march.

As ever, everything would be filmed

and posted on their
gold tick Twitter account.

And that included Paul Golding,
the leader,

and Nick Scanlon, their candidate
for London Mayor.

The rally is Polish independence

after the Second World War.

After ten years of
a nationalist government,

this demonstration had grown
and grown and grown in size

and become one of the largest
far-right demonstrations in Europe.

It attracts a lot
of different people.

There are families there with kids,

and others who are there
to celebrate independence.

But also extreme far-right groups.

There is a big chunk

of explicitly fascist groups
walking through it.

Look on the floor there.
You see this?

They're all stood on
the gay pride flag

and European Union flag. Yeah.

Fucking hell. Look at that.

They're just wiping their feet on
the gay pride flag.

As a gay man, it's, erm...

..complicated to see,

but I think you go into this mood
where you are just

there to observe. But it is scary.
It's scary

because I really believe it could
happen here as well.

I see sort of the rise of homophobia

and a lot of transphobia right now
as well.

It makes me think about what can
happen if we just let these things

fester and let them normalise.

Oh, my fucking God,
it's Adolf Hitler.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

God, that's a Jewish person
hanging from a lamppost.

Jews get the blame
for everything, right?

White supremacists see modern
society as failing, as collapsing.

They hate feminism,
they hate immigration,

they hate LGBT people,
people of colour,

and they are all believed
to be undermining western society.

But for the most extreme people,
Jews are seen as

the kind of all-powerful
facilitators,

the masterminds that are encouraging
this destruction of white society.

Try and get the group of people in
black there with green armbands.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

There's a guy in the middle that has
a flag - is that an American flag?

I think it's Patriot Front flag.

American. Patriot Front.

If you look at his gloves,

you can see they've got
knuckle-dusters on them.

If you look right at
the front there,

the blue flag with the cross
in the middle,

that's the British movement.

It's a very intolerant
demonstration.

Of course, not every person
at this march is a Nazi

but they are happy
to march alongside them.

Britain First wants to go there
to represent the UK

but they also want to make friends
and be seen in this big rally.

A lot of patriots from all
across Europe coming

for this brilliant event.

Nick, what's your opinion
of what you've seen so far?

Fantastic. Never seen anything
like it in my life.

True nationalism and patriotism.

Absolutely. If only we could have
this in Britain.

FIREWORKS BANG

Harry got a good rapport
with Paul Golding

and some of the other members,
so he did really well there.

A weird mixture of, like, families
and then, like, horrible Nazis.

It was weird. Yeah.

They were talking about how
the media always says that it's like

a Nazi thing rather than a
nationalist patriot thing.

All great pictures!
HE LAUGHS

You're looking a bit lost.

I look absolutely vacant.

There's nothing between those ears.

I mean,
this one was the creepiest one.

Is he looking at you?

Scanlon's looking straight at me.

Yeah. He must not have clocked
you, though.

He kept sort of doing this sort of,
you know what I mean?

Like sort of patting me on
the chest,

right where the camera bit was.

LAUGHS

He did that a couple of times,

and I was just like,
"Fuck, how could he not?

"How could he not feel this great
hunk of plastic on my chest?"

But he touched it, I swear.

But it's something to keep
in mind with him, though.

But I think that's only when
he's drunk.

When... When he's...
When he's sober, he's pretty, erm...

He keeps his hands to himself.

LAUGHTER

Do you mind if I zip around?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because I might be able to try to...

Yeah.

OK.

I want to find this bit.

Oh, fuck. I hate hearing myself
saying this. It's absolutely awful.

You are being something else
in order to do the job

and you don't like that person.

Yeah, I have an idea about myself
that's not... It's not horrid.

And then listening
to these tapes and playing them,

it's like, "Oh, no wait,
I am actually being a total cunt."

It would be odd if you didn't

dislike the person you're
having to be.

Yeah, it's just stark hearing it.

He was eyeing up the girls in
the bar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

LAUGHS

Wow, OK, so you knew that...

Yeah, yeah.

Did you hear that? Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, fuck.

Yeah, belly of the beast, yeah.

Did you hear that? Yes.

OK. OK. That is very good.

He's a mayoral candidate
and we've got at least two,

maybe three bombshell quotes
on him.

I don't think this could have gone
better, this weekend.

This is the Jewish cemetery
of Warsaw.

It's one of the biggest
and oldest in Europe.

Part of my family comes from Poland,

they left Poland just before
the First World War.

Life for Jews in Poland at that
time was very difficult.

My great-grandfather was a tailor.

He decided to leave
with his young family

to come to London.

Even though we're not culturally
or practising Jews,

his story looms large in my family.

The family that didn't leave
Poland before the Holocaust,

we don't know what happened to them.

They are believed to have been, erm,

deported to Majdanek
and gassed there.

So many of the people who
I've met in the last year

do have Jews in their sights.

It's very sad
and it's maddening that

the same political forces that
caused all these deaths

in the 20th century are still alive
in some form today.

This stuff never goes away.

The symbols and
the flags might alter somewhat.

The meaning behind them doesn't.

I've just come back from Manchester,

where I met officers from
the National Crime Agency.

They informed me that they had
recently arrested someone under

the Malicious Communications Act,

and while searching his devices,

they found my name
and my home address,

and he was in contact with somebody
- they don't know who -

to target me. He's clearly a
far-right sympathiser,

a big Tommy Robinson
supporter, visits their Telegram

and, you know, social media channels
a lot. Britain First supporter,

very anti, kind of,
migrants and immigrants.

They kind of reassured me they will
prosecute him for plotting

to send me hoax messages
or threats or whatever.

My address has never been public.

Yet this bloke knew my address,
my postcode, my house number.

You know,
a 19-year-old kid in Lancashire.

PHONE RINGS

We found a website.

Someone's put up your phone number
and my phone number.

And they put it up with like
a little blurb about we were

the ones that have been going
after Tommy, so...

OK, well, I'm sorry to hear
that about you, mate.

Yeah, well, and you.

I've got more bad news
for you, actually. Right.

He appeared in court just in
April this year

after the security service in
the USA intercepted

an order for a .38 Calibre
Smith and Wesson pistol.

So we came across a court record.

The US security services tipped off
the British police.

They intercepted the parcel,
took out a real gun,

put in a fake,

and then arrested him with
the fake.

They didn't mention anything
about a gun.

It's really fucked up. I mean...

I appreciate all this, Joe.
And let's, erm,

let's catch up tomorrow morning

and just compare notes
and everything.

All right. Stay safe.
Let me know when you get home.

All right, mate, take care.
All right, mate. Bye-bye. Bye.

CHUCKLES

Oh!

So, well, good news and bad news -

I've found the person that's been
sending you the takeaways.

So the date that you got your
first takeaway,

we now have a screencap of
an order to your house.

Two chilli chicken masalas,
one mushroom pilau rice,

with your address on it.

It seems that the person that's been
ordering the takeaways is now

the same person that bought the gun

and, erm, and has been arrested.

And it seems, again, from the
circumstantial evidence that

the individual who
has been arrested

is the same person that posted
your address and my address.

How have the police not found this?

I can't be certain, but it seems
very clear that this guy got

obsessed with Hope Not Hate,
got obsessed with you,

harassed you for months,
published our addresses,

and then bought a gun from America.

To me, I mean, that's the timeline.

It's very clear there's
lots of links to Tommy.

I'm not saying direct links
with Tommy.

The guy kind of pops up in
Tommy Robinson's chats loads.

We're mean about Tommy Robinson,
he goes and finds out who we are.

The difference here is that they're
not just sending us

horrible messages on social media.
He's gone and bought a gun. Right?

How are you holding up?

Because your address is up there
as well, isn't it?

A little bit shaken by it.

So I came home from work one day
and there's, like,

a building site literally
ten metres away.

And there was like the black
boarding that they put around

the building site, and someone had
sprayed in massive letters "rapist"

right out this window, kind of just
across the street directly.

And, erm, and obviously Tommy
Robinson calls me a rapist.

He calls Nick a paedophile,
calls me a rapist.

That's the way he tries
to whip up his supporters

to hate us.
And, erm, and you don't know.

You never know, right?
It's the main road.

So you think, "Well, maybe it's
about someone else, right?"

You know, we hope it's about
someone else.

Or maybe they would have put
my name.

And then it got painted over
by the builders.

And then a few days later,
it comes back again.

They rewrote it. "Rapists."
And, erm...

And you, you know, and you hope
it's... Sorry.

And you hope it's just, you know,
general graffiti or something.

But you don't know then, do you?
You know, it's at night-time

and you think, "Well, someone
knows where I live

"and he calls me..." which is the
worst that you could be called

in the world, right?
And then it's there, you know?

You think, "Shit, maybe someone
does know where I live. Maybe..."

Sorry.

It's just fucking horrible,
you know?

But when they're coming for us,

they're not going for
the people they'd normally target,

you know, which is positive.

If you go back to the '20s
and '30s,

the cartoons were about
Jewish men being a sexual threat

to young women. In the postwar
period it was about,

you know,
Afro-Caribbean and West Indian

and Indian men being sexual threats

and pimps in West London.
And then, you know,

the Muslims are groomers.
There's nothing new in that tactic.

The far-right present themselves
as the defenders.

They're defenders of women,
they're defenders of children.

Of course I am, you know,
broadly speaking, a white man.

But I think the people of the
far-right probably can just tell

there's something in there. But I
don't think anyone's going to guess.

Irish, German, Indian.

My grandfather,
he came over on a boat in 1951.

My mum's mum was German, and she
came over as domestic help

straight after the Second World War.

And this German woman and this
Indian man fall in love

in West London. And a lot of the
family disowned her.

What on earth they must have
had to go through

as that couple in that period.

In some sense, it allows me to be
here now, you know.

It's like a beautiful kind of
post-war love story,

isn't it, really?

Tommy's documentary is only
about one young man

but it feeds into a much wider
anti-migrant focus that

the far-right have had over
the last few years.

We thought that this was

a really good chance to hold
him to account.

We are outside the
Attorney General's office,

where we're delivering
an open letter

and a dossier
of evidence which proves that

Tommy Robinson knowingly
broke the law.

The evidence is overwhelming.
It's now just a case of making sure

the Attorney General's Office
see it.

Erm, and then we have
to prove that it's in

the public interest.
It's over 80 pages.

It will probably take
a few months for

the Attorney General to review it,
because they are overwhelmed.

It might not look like much

but this is actually
a really big moment for us.

Hi, there. We're booked to drop off
a petition to Attorney General.

We emailed about it.

Thank you so much.

We're done.

Woo! Woo!

CLAPPING

Nice. Thanks, everyone.

And it's all done. All done.

Meanwhile, we continued our
investigation into Aporia

and who was financing it.

Hello.

Patrik and I had this idea
to get close to Matt.

I was going to pretend to be
an investor.

I approached him saying that

I had recently come into some
family money,

I want to put it into something that
I believe in.

The funding situation for Aporia
is, I would say, quite healthy.

From the moment Harry positioned
himself as a donor,

said he had money, things started
moving quite quickly.

Money talks, fictional money talks.

We were able to get
to meet Matt several times,

his team - online, in person.

Perhaps if it would be good
to start with Aporia,

I would be interested
to know how you are set up

for funding and if, you know,

what would you basically be able
to do with a bit more in your tank?

Even back in Tallinn,
Matt Archer said

"it's a redpilling operation",
which means to radicalise.

Well, we want to be read by
the elite, right?

The aspiring elite people that might
accidentally end up becoming

the elite because they're
so crazy or entrepreneurial

that they make it big.

So it's like we're now
a few rungs removed from

the most important people who
endorse these messages of, like,

you know, important
policy-relevant social science.

Aporia is trying
to get important policymakers

and entrepreneurs
and billionaires accustomed to

the idea that races have different,
discernible levels of intelligence.

So I see us playing that
role as being like,

you pick up this physical
end-of-year magazine,

you perhaps go to our site

and you learn something that's
relevant for governing as an elite.

When you want to set up
a new project, like someone...

like, we've got lots of people,
obviously. We've got, like, kind of

an underground organisation as well
going on with research.

Right towards the end of the call,
he mentions they also operate

an underground research
organisation.

This seemed to us a really exciting
tip that we wanted to look into.

So that begged the question,

is this connected to
the Pioneer Fund?

Brilliant. That sounds like a sort
of much more rocket-powered version

of the Pioneer Fund.

Today is a dinner to try
and get to know him a bit more,

try and find out who his
funders are,

and hear a bit more about
what he has planned

for his organisation.

This camera has
a very sensitive stop button,

so if you brush against
the stop button,

you lose all the footage that you've
been working so hard to get.

I found the caps of the top of...

LAUGHS
This is so shit!

The caps of the tops of, erm,
flosses - you know, dental floss -

tend to fit kind of quite nicely,
and it just makes you think,

"What would, like, the American
equivalent have?"

Some kind of amazing piece of tech.

So look at this!

Isn't that amazing?

Matt has a partner in this
organisation

called Emil Kirkegaard,

who is one of the most well-known
race scientists operating today.

He's very controversial.

He's expressed himself in very
extreme terms

on a number of topics.

Against homosexuality
and, of course, race.

No mainstream academic papers will
take stuff that he's written.

When Matt said that Emil had gotten
the money from Lynn,

that was probably the biggest step
forward in this investigation

since we started.

That meant that some form of
the Pioneer Fund was still running.

Hey.

SIGHS

Hey. How, was it?

It was fascinating.

He said it's registered in, erm,

in a state that allows
for some privacy.

Here's something interesting -
so he's hired, like, a director of

operations, a guy called Erik,

some AfD guy. Based in Germany.

Interesting. Why in Germany?

He loves Germany. A bit ominously,

he thinks that they're
the great white hope for Europe.

There are lots of far-right
activists coming back onto Twitter.

I'm back on Twitter.
I'm back on X, yeah?

But Tommy comes back
and he comes back with a bang.

With grooming, we forced them to
bring it...

We brought it to the forefront.
We shifted the Overton window.

We made it acceptable
for politicians to talk about it.

Within two weeks
of being back online,

he was personally telling people
to be out on the streets.

CROWD: ♪ Oh, Tommy, Tommy!

♪ Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,
Tommy Robinson!

The only time our government
and our police will decide

to do something is when they see
a resistance.

An uncontrollable amass of men.

SHOUTING

This is fucking England!

Then the Attorney General said
that they were actually

going to initiate criminal
proceedings

against Tommy Robinson.

You know, you think you've done
a great job

but there's always
a chance that it might not happen.

So two days before he was meant
to appear in court again,

Robinson organised
a massive demo in London.

In front of as many as 40,000
people, he screened the film again.

This is the exact same documentary
in which he makes

the libellous claims against
the young man

which he was
explicitly told not to do.

Now you can take me to court!

By this point, the documentary has
15 million views online.

If you send me to jail,

it says more about
the court than it does about me.

Oh, God, it's so horrible.

NEWSREADER: A wave of unrest
started after an attack

at a Taylor Swift dance class
in Southport.

Three young girls were killed.

The suspect behind yesterday's
attack isn't known

to be Muslim, but a connection
was drawn nonetheless.

This violence fuelled by
racist misinformation.

Oh, Jesus.

There's real people inside
these buildings.

A lot of false information was
spread about whether

the attacker was an asylum seeker

or him having recently arrived
on a small boat.

You've allowed people into our towns
and cities that are raping their way

though our towns. They are murdering
our kids left, right and centre.

Women are being raped daily across
every city in our country

from the fuckers that you've
brought in.

It's not just the lie, it's whether
people believe the lie that matters.

People are exposed to these tropes
and stereotypes everywhere,

whether that's through social
media algorithms, through

the media or through mainstream
political discussion.

It kind of nestles its way
into your brain

and you might be more primed
to believe that it's true.

Let me get the screenshots.

What was shared with me is all
of these screenshots.

"Spread as far and wide as you can."
"No more immigration."

And then random immigration clinics,
and they just

want to attack whoever they've
heard of in their local area.

There's a group that are posting
all of it.

I think the research team
are getting close

to finding out who actually that is.

I definitely just want to ring
all of these people up.

Basically just get contact details
for them

so that we can follow up afterwards.
Is there a timeframe?

Wednesday night, 8pm. Yeah.

So, obviously, as well,
we should be telling people

to close their offices, really.
This goes beyond concern.

This goes beyond showing up to
a random demonstration.

This is you actually wanting
to hurt people. Yeah.

I think our immediate focus this
week is literally protect lives.

That is so scary.

We obviously have
to look at this stuff,

we have to know what they're up to.
But in and amongst this,

like when I'm scrolling down my
feed, it's... It's everywhere.

It's like... It's black, brown and
Muslim people getting beaten up.

Yeah. Kicked in the head.

I guess that's why we do it.

Doesn't make it easy, though.

And it's just everywhere. Yeah.

Hello. Afternoon, Georgie.

I just wanted Joe really
to start with

a kind of summary
of what's happened.

I'm pretty certain this is the worst
wave of far-right violence

we've probably seen in
the post-war period.

It's pretty unprecedented
what we're seeing here,

so obviously we're struggling
just to keep on top of it.

We did put out a request for help
and information on social media

so people will be sending in
pictures and videos etc.

Please do pass them on.

Our objective is gonna be here to...
We want everyone...

We want everyone who threw
a brick at a mosque,

we want everyone who tried
to burn asylum centres,

we want every one of them.
I want to know who they are.

We are gonna make them
face justice.

A threat was made against Nick
that says,

"If anyone wants to go down in a
blaze of glory,

"take this man with you."

And then, all caps,
"Death to Nick Lowles."

"Any man who takes his life will
be a hero to the cause."

This country is at a crossroads.

I mean, and it is not an
exaggeration to say that.

And I think we've really got
to be clear with people -

that's the future for Britain.
They want civil war.

And if we don't want civil war, then
we need to do something about it.

What really clarified everything...

Hello, hello.

..was this zoom call with Matt
and Emil Kirkegaard.

So there we go. Greetings.

Emil was particularly excited
to share some of

the projects that his race science
team were putting together

or had recently published.

Well, of course,
there's a lot of focus on genomics,

but not all of it is genomics.

Something that's obvious when anyone
reads Twitter is that wokeness

and mental illness are related.

Things that claim to show
a link between wokeness

and mental illness,
honesty and races,

white people being more honest
than black people.

And even the stuff like how
IQ is linked to penis size.

We did a study of race differences
in sexuality

and it's, of course, something that
many people are interested in

but it's very difficult to study.

He is obsessed with the sexual drive

of different groups of people.

Having a high sexual drive
is connected

to sort of being
uncivilised, brutish.

And having a controlled sexual drive

and one that is normative is
considered intelligent

and being connected
to being mentally healthy.

But it turns out there is
a group of people

in the world who are experts in
race differences and sexuality,

and these people are hookers
who have clients of all sorts

of people. So we did a large
survey of hookers online,

and asked them all about all sorts
of race differences.

Like, of course, we include the
standard stuff

like who has a bigger penis.

But also, like, who's...
who was more into, erm,

buttocks versus the boobs and who
cums easily... Their life history.

Yeah, basically, life history.

They believe this stuff.
They really care about it.

They want you to believe it, too.

They get laughed at all the time
by people saying, like,

"You're crazy, you're an idiot."

So to have someone listen
to them and say,

"Oh, that sounds really good.
That's really cool."

You know, "Do more of that."
That's what they want to hear.

So Emil's just going to go over.

The call is about Aporia.

It would be a very brief thing

because, you know, we've had dinner.
We've spoken about this.

But it's just one leg
of this new operation.

So he'll go over to
the main structure.

That's OK. Yeah. We can, we can...

We can do it after,
that's all right.

It was enormously exciting to see
these slide shows come at us

with the inner workings
of this very secretive company.

Just on a note from me, I'm in, yep.

I'm ready and excited,

and we can talk about
specific numbers.

They more or less go through

the organisational structure
where HDF is at the top,

the Human Diversity Foundation.

So we only have one company that has
essentially two divisions,

research and media.

The Human Diversity Foundation, HDF,

which is the umbrella
and it has two arms.

Matt does Aporia,

the marketing wing.

The outwards-facing popular outlet.

And then the other

is a research operation.

Run by Emil.

On the research side,
that's essentially what

I'm running.
I'm the head of research.

A network that funds researchers

and directs their research
into race-sciencey topics.

In terms of the funding, in July,

we raised another 900K
from the same guy,

making a total...

..from the early starts of getting
funding from that guy,

the total will be one point...
1.3, I think.

1.3, 1.4 million. US.

We heard this figure
of $1.3 million,

and that there had been multiple

funding rounds with this
one investor.

Does your funder...
Are they ideologically aligned?

I just want to know that, er,
that he isn't

going to get scared if there's some
adverse publicity in the future.

I would say he's secure
in terms of ideology.

I don't know what specifically
politics he's into,

but he hates woke stuff. OK.

I would guess he's a kind of
a fairly typical,

somewhere between, you know,
white nationalist and libertarian.

OK. This guy is so well off that it
doesn't really matter what they say

to him. OK.
It doesn't matter.

He's in the... I don't know how
many digits of millions.

We'd taken a big gamble in
Chris pretending to be

a wealthy investor,
but we had done it with

the hope that something exactly
like this would happen,

that there would be PDFs
and slide decks

with secret details coming at us.

And now here we had evidence
about what Aporia

and the wider HDF organisation
was up to.

Come on in.

How's it going? How's it going?

Good. Just got here.
Just getting ready.

What, erm... How are you feeling?

Yeah. Excited. It's kind of, erm...

It's...it's weird just being here
for two words, just a name.

Exactly. But that's all we need.
Yeah. Who's the funder?

$1.3 million dollars into
this project.

You pushed before
and it's been on their lips.

So, like, it's just about pushing,
saying,

"I need to know who else is
involved in this project in order

"to put my money in."
On previous occasions,

we've been worried about
going too hard

for fear of being seen as a rat.

But in Athens,

about to put in
a load of fictional money,

I feel like we can be
a bit more forceful.

Naturally, pay for everything.

Like, everywhere. Just pay.

And if you need more money,
message me.

They're asking rough ETA.
"We're downstairs in the cafe."

Oh, shit.

OK.

Spare memory card,

power bank, cable.

Shit.

OK. Great. And the camera?
The camera works.

OK.

All right.

OK, see you later.

Good luck. Thanks.
And hide your other phone. Yeah.

The stakes for going to Athens
felt incredibly high

because never had I gone to
a meeting undercover

with a goal to extract something
really clear.

In order to show that
Harry really had all

the money that he said he had,
we hatched a plan

to just show up as if it was
no big thing,

stay in a nice hotel,

take them out for
a really expensive dinner.

Sort of radiate wealth

in a way that will probably convince
them that this guy is the real deal

and make the other funder
willing to share his name.

Hello. Hi. A table in the name
of Chris at 8:00.

The response we always get

in a project like this is that they
will try to downplay.

They will say that we don't
actually know him that well,

so pictures of them together

helps shutting those sorts of
responses down.

OK here?
Yes, perfect. Thank you.

Erik pulls out his phone,
opens Telegram,

and shows me this video of
an extreme right youth group.

My camera didn't catch it
but I found their channel later.

They are right in front of
the window,

right in the middle of things.

I can get a picture of them,
I think.

Got an OK one. Not great.
Like, there are, like,

blinds hanging down on
the side, or, like, curtains.

But I'm gonna
just walk past a window

and take some pictures
with my phone.

Thank you.

KNOCKS ON DOOR

Hey, come on in.

Have I got a story to tell you!
You'll never guess...

Tell me everything.
You'll never guess who it is.

They only yielded the name after
quite a lot of back and forth.

I said it was really important
that I know who it was

for business reasons
and they said,

"Well, we can't tell you." And I
said, "That's not good enough."

And then Erik said,
"Emil's cool with saying -

"he told me on the first time
I met him,

"so what if we just called up Emil

"and asked him if that was OK
with him?"

And I was like, "Yeah," trying to be
as cool about it as possible.

Yeah.

I had this, erm, this, like,
incredibly dry plate

of fish in front of me,
and I was like,

"I've just got to eat it

"and pretend that it's all just,
like, normal

"and not, like, hanging
on every word!"

It was like I had, like,
the mouth of a skeleton

and it's just, like, so dry.

Anyway, this was all going on.
And then, erm, and they said,

"Yeah, it's this guy Andrew Conru.

"He's the Adult FriendFinder
founder."

It's a good job.

So we got it!

We had been working towards it
for so long.

To actually get that name.

That's so unexpected.
We got it.

Andrew Conru is
a man who made his millions

in the early days of the internet.

We'd never heard of him before.

We'd never considered him as
a potential investor.

But now he's funding an organisation

that spreads extreme ideology
online.

To be able to uncover something
that's that secretive,

that has that much money
behind it...

Wow.

..felt... It felt like the kind of
crowning achievement

of this whole year.

It's a huge relief.

It's terrifying to think that there
are people out there who have

so much money that they are
basically unaccountable.

We needed that name.

It doesn't get any clearer
than that.

It's perfect.

We want to bring people that fund
these sorts of things

out of the shadows.

I think people have the right
to know that there's

so much money going into this
project

and what its ultimate goals are.

Once the information is out there,

it's out of our control exactly
what happens.

I don't know how
the world will react,

but I hope we have shown people how
these organisations can work.

My time as an undercover journalist
is definitely over.

It will be nice to go back just
to being myself again.

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