Bob Lambert and the Academic Community

Subsequent to his retirement from police service in 2007, Bob Lambert - previously an undercover officer with and then operational commander of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch's Special Demonstration Squad - had a second career as an academic.
This page summarises the many groups and people Lambert associated with in his capacity as a former-police-officer-turned-academic specialising in Islamophobia and de-radicalisation, building on his work with the Met's Muslim Contact Unit. While the other half of this page looks at Bob Lambert and the Muslim Community, this section focuses on his professional relationships in the academic community, notably in the terrorism studies and Islamic studies milieu; and includes his main critics. Also see Bob Lambert Writing and Speaking
* For a full overview of all pages on him, see Bob Lambert.
The intention is to show how Lambert worked his way into networks and discourse subsequent to his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in a manner consistent with the way he did whilst a serving officer, particularly during his time in the Special Demonstration Squad. It also aims to map how he used a relatively small number of individuals to effect his passage into and through much larger numbers of organisations.
Disclaimer. This page was developed using only open source materials, and it is not meant as a critique (or, for that matter, as an endorsement) of the groups and individuals mentioned.Please note that many of the sources used here could be considered hostile to the groups they describe. The intention is to show that Lambert willingly - and knowingly - engaged with or even supported organisations and individuals at a time when they were being openly being criticised for connections to (perceived) extremists; and to show that such criticism came not just from traditional conservative or neoconservative quarters (e.g. the Daily Telegraph, Policy Exchange), but also from those in the neoconservative tradition such as Harry's Place and the Quilliam Foundation. The latter reportedly received £700,000 as part of the government's Preventing Violent Extremism Programme, £400,000 of which was given by the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT). Vikram Dodd Spying Morally Right, says Think-Tank, The Guardian, 16 October 2009
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==Background== 
This is one of a series of pages on Bob Lambert and his work, first as an undercover for the Special Demonstration Squad, and later as a mentor to and manager of further generations of spycops. Towards the end of his police career Lambert focused on islamophobia and deradicalisation, and set up the Muslim Contact Unit as a pilot within Special Branch, to work with muslim communities to push out jihadi recruiters. After his retirement on 2007, Lambert continued this work for his PhD. His thesis was published as Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership.Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, Hurst & Company, 2011 Little over a month after the book was launched in September 2011, Lambert was exposed, and his academic career has dwindled since.
When working with muslim communities and in academia, Lambert has always been open about his career of 27 years with the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch and the Counter Terrorism Command. When embarking on his academic career he presented this as his unique selling point - that he has “a perspective that combines academic research and police practitioner experience”.Robert Lambert, ‘British Muslim Organisations: The Target of an Orchestrated Neocon Campaign of Denigration’. Arches Quarterly Volume 4 Issue 7, pp128-142, Winter 2010. 
What Lambert consistently failed to mention, was the fact that at least ten of those years had been with the Special Demonstration Squad),To be clear, he served in the Special Demonstration Squad from no later than September 1983 until sometime in 1989, and then from November 1993 until late 1998. See Lambert's police career timeline for details and references. infiltrating activist groups and gathering intelligence about their political work.
==Key themes==
Lambert pursued a “path of mixed practitioner/academic activity”, earning his undergraduate degree in 1995 whilst still a serving Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer. He then studied “early modern English encounters with Islam”,Robert Lambert, Staff profile page, John Grieve Policing Centre, London Metropolitan University website, 2013 (accessed 19 April 2014). and 
for his Masters, which was awarded in 2003 (a year after he set up the Muslim Contact Unit).
By 2005 he was working on his PhD, which combined his academic research with professional experience garnered through the MCU.Bob Lambert, ‘Reflections on Counter-Terrorism Partnerships in Britain’, Arches, issue number 5, January-February 2007 (accessed 22 November 2014).
On his retirment from the Met at the end of 2007, he entered into a research partnership with Jonathan Githens-Mazer at the University of Exeter, based around the ESRC-funded project ‘Cultures of Repression: the Legacy of Colonial Violence and State Repression in the Maghreb, and its Effect on North African Diasporas in Europe’.Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘Cultures of Repression: the Legacy of Colonial Violence and State Repression in the Maghreb, and its Effect on North African Diasporas in Europe’ (research catalogue), Economic & Social Research Council website, 2011 (accessed 22 March 2016). Initially, Lambert noted that his principal research interests as an academic were “community-based approaches to counter-terrorism and Islamophobia,”Robert Lambert, Staff profile page, Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews website, 2012 (accessed 19 April 2014). in line with his MCU work and subsequent European Muslim Research Centre research projects.
His PhD was published as Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership in September 2011, a month later he was publicly exposed as a former undercover with and later manager of the Special Demonstration Squad.
By 2013 he had broadened out his focus to “terrorism, counter-terrorism, far right political violence and anti-Muslim hate crimes.”Robert Lambert, Staff profile page, John Grieve Policing Centre, London Metropolitan University website, 2013 (accessed 19 April 2014). This shift in emphasis saw him increasingly address the likes of Norwegian spree killer Anders Breivik, the ideologies which inspired him, and concepts of far-right ‘lone wolf’ terrorism.Dr Robert Lambert, ‘Terrorists Are Sane’, Huffington Post UK, 26 July 2011 (25 September 2011) (accessed 5 January 2016).Robert Lambert, ‘Was Anders Breivik a psychotic spree killer or a calculating terrorist?’, RUSI website, 18 August 2011 (accessed 21 November 2014).Robert Lambert, ‘Anders Breivik: rational terrorist or insane spree killer’. John Pearce (ed.), Investigating Terrorism: Current Political, Legal and Psychological Issues, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
==Key locations==
Through his academic career Lambert had positions with several different research units at various universities.
*European Muslim Research Centre (EMRC) at University of Exeter: Lambert joined Exeter as a research fellow in 2008, working on a doctorate under his supervisor Bill Tupman. There, in September 2009 he and Jonathan Githens-Mazer, also at Exeter, set up and rant the European Muslim Research Centre. He and Githen-Mazer conducted research based on Lambert's experience at the based on Lambert's experience at the Muslim Contact Unit of community engagement work with Salafi and other Islamist groups.Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert MBE, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 16 April 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (second edition) (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 11 June 2014).
:This was done under ‘Cultures of Repression’ project which was being managed by Githens-Mazer.Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘Cultures of Repression: the Legacy of Colonial Violence and State Repression in the Maghreb, and its Effect on North African Diasporas in Europe’ (research catalogue), Economic & Social Research Council website, 2011 (accessed 22 March 2016). From 2009 until 2010 Lambert supervised the PhD research of Abdul Haqq Baker, whom Lambert had known since 2002 as a Brixton-based Salafi.Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Robert Lambert, Abdul-Haqq Baker, Safiyah Cohen-Baker & Zacharias Pieri, Muslim Communities: Perspectives on Radicalisation in Leicester, UK, Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation, March 2010 (accessed 5 January 2016).It may be pertinent that at around the same time as Baker joined Lambert at EMRC in November 2009, Lambert resigned as a director of Baker's registered company STREET, a role he had fulfilled since May 2008; however Lambert's son Adam continued working as operations manager for STREET, which he had joined in 2008 and continued to work for until his death in 2011. See the main Bob Lambert and Bob Lambert Consultancy pages for more details on these issues. Lambert quietly resigned from his post at Exeter in October 2011 following his unmasking as a former undercover police officer - which remained unrevealed until journalist Rob Evans wrote about it in The Guardian in January 2015.Rob Evans, ‘University under pressure to sack controversial former undercover spy Bob Lambert’, The Guardian, 6 January 2015 (accessed 9 March 2015).
*Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St. Andrews University: From September 2008 Lambert began teaching, lecturing and supervising dissertations on the e-learning M.Litt. terrorism studies course provided by St. Andrews University's Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), a noted research centre in the field of Terrorism Studies. Co-founded in 1994 by Paul Wilkinson and Bruce Hoffman,University of St. Andrews press office, ‘Death of Professor Paul Wilkinson’, University of St. Andrews website, 12 August 2011 (accessed 22 March 2016). CSTPV's director from 2006 to 2011 was Alex Schmid. He was succeeded by Richard English, who was still there when Lambert resigned his post at St. Andrews in December 2015.Joseph Cassidy, ‘Bob Lambert resigns as University lecturer over spying controversy’, The Saint, 22 December 2015 (accessed 31 January 2016).Paul Hutcheon, ‘Former undercover police officer Bob Lambert quits St Andrews University teaching post over outcry’, The Herald, 23 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016).Rob Evans, ‘Ex-undercover officer who infiltrated political groups resigns from academic posts’, The Guardian, 23 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016).Chris Havergal, ‘Former undercover police officer resigns academic posts’, Times Higher Education, 23 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016).William McLennan, ‘Lecturer who faced protests over ‘police spy’ past, hands in his notice at Holloway Road university’, Islington Tribune, 30 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016).
*John Grieve Centre (JGC) at London Metropolitan University: In September 2012 Lambert joined the staff at the John Grieve Centre, a criminology unit based at London Metropolitan University. This was at the invitation of his former opposite number at the City of London Police, Tim Parsons, , who had himself been on the advisory board of the EMRC at Exeter after a career with the City of London Police (see below).European Muslim Research Centre, ‘EMRC Advisory Board’, University of Exeter website, 5 October 2011 (accessed 1 February 2015 via Archive.org).‘Tim Parsons’, London Metropolitan University website, 2013 (accessed 28 November 2014).European Muslim Research Centre, ‘EMRC Advisory Board’, University of Exeter website, 5 October 2011 (accessed 1 February 2015 via Archive.org).‘Dr Tim Parsons’, LinkedIn.com, 2014 (accessed 21 January 2015). Lambert acted as course leader for the undergraduate Criminology and Law course from autumn 2012 until at least summer 2014.‘Course Handbook: BSc (Hons) Criminology and Law (2012-2013)’, London Metropolitan University, 2012 (accessed 9 March 2015).‘Course Handbook: BA (Hons) Criminology and Law (2013-2014)’, London Metropolitan University, 2013 (accessed 9 March 2015).‘Course Faculty, MSc in Security Studies’, London Metropolitan University website, 2013 (accessed 22 March 2015). Named for its founder (who continues to serve at the Centre's director) - a former senior Met police officer with a background in undercover policing and anti-terrorism, and noted for leading the Racial and Violent Crimes Task Force as well as reinvestigating the Stephen Lawrence murder - the John Grieve Centre continues to have close connections to the police. Of the seven serving as faculty members in 2015, besides Lambert three had Metropolitan Police backgrounds (Anti-Terrorist Branch and Special Branch), two were alumni of St. Andrews University's Terrorism Studies course, and one had close connections to the University of Exeter's EMRC.MPS backgrounds: Tim Fairley, John Grieve and Nick Ridley. Anti-Terrorist Branch: John Grieve and Nick Ridley. MPSB: Nick Ridley. St. Andrews University Terrorism Studies: Tim Fairley and Douglas Weeks. EMRC: Tim Parsons. Source: John Grieve Centre, ‘About us (2015 version)’, London Metropolitan University website, 2015 (accessed 22 March 2015). 
:After a concerted public campaign to see his ouster, Lambert resigned his post at London Metropolitan in December 2015.Joseph Cassidy, ‘Bob Lambert resigns as University lecturer over spying controversy’, The Saint, 22 December 2015 (accessed 31 January 2016).Paul Hutcheon, ‘Former undercover police officer Bob Lambert quits St Andrews University teaching post over outcry’, The Herald, 23 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016).Rob Evans, ‘Ex-undercover officer who infiltrated political groups resigns from academic posts’, The Guardian, 23 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016).Chris Havergal, ‘Former undercover police officer resigns academic posts’, Times Higher Education, 23 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016).William McLennan, ‘Lecturer who faced protests over ‘police spy’ past, hands in his notice at Holloway Road university’, Islington Tribune, 30 December 2015 (accessed 26 March 2016). Lambert was replaced by Robin Bhairam, a former Met officer who from January 2013 until February 2015 served as Deputy National Coordinator Domestic Extremism(NCDE), with responsibility for overseeing the rump of the NPOIU spycop units, now stripped from their operational powers.‘Dr Robin Bhairam’, LinkedIn.com website, 2014 (accessed 1 April 2016).John Grieve Centre, ‘About Us (2016 version)’, London Metropolitan University website, 2016 (accessed 1 April 2016).
==Key people==
*Javier Argomaniz and Orla Lynch: Colleagues of Lambert's at St. Andrews University's Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. In 2015 Argomaniz and Lynch edited a book - International Perspectives on Terrorist Victimisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach - for which Lambert wrote a chapter, entitled ‘Victims of Terrorism: Distinctive and Diverse Experiences’.Robert Lambert, ‘Victims of Terrorism: Distinctive and Diverse Experiences’. Javier Argomaniz & Orla Lynch (ed.), International Perspectives on Terrorist Victimisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. They cited Lambert as one of the scholars with whom they “learnt much from our conversations and exchanges”.Javier Argomaniz & Orla Lynch (ed.), International Perspectives on Terrorist Victimisation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp.viii-ix. From 2014 Lambert is referenced as a ‘Radicalisation and Victimisation Project’ team member on the Victims of Terrorism Academic Research Group run by Argomaniz and Lynch.Victims of Terrorism Academic Research Group, ‘Project Staff’, Victims of Terrorism Academic Research Group blog, 2014 (17 March 2016).
*Abdul Haqq Baker: Born Anthony Baker,Born Anthony Baker, he converted to Islam in 1990 and subsequently chaired the Brixton Mosque (1994 to 2009). There in 2006/2007, he founded the Salafi youth outreach organisation Strategy to Reach, Empower, and Educate Teenagers - better known as STREET UK)Jack Barclay, Strategy to Reach, Empower, and Educate Teenagers (STREET): A Case Study in Government-Community Partnership and Direct Intervention to Counter Violent Extremism, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, December 2011(accessed 21 November 2014). and was a key ally of Lambert and his Muslim Contact Unit (see Bob Lambert and the Muslim Community for more detail).‘Dr A H Baker’, Abdul Haqq Baker PhD website, 2015 (accessed 7 February 2016).BristleKRS, ‘On cop-spies and paid betrayers (1.2): Doctor Bob Lambert, his academic friends and the tightening purse-strings’, Bristle's Blog From The BunKRS, 6 September 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).BristleKRS, ‘On cop-spies and paid betrayers (1.3): Lambert of the Yard and the mystery of his ‘suburban terror bunker’ trading address’, Bristle's Blog From The BunKRS, 8 September 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015). Indeed, on the formal incorporation of STREET in April 2008 Lambert was a founding director,‘STRATEGY TO REACH EMPOWER AND EDUCATE TEENAGERS (STREET UK) LIMITED’, Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015). alongside Baker,‘ABDUL HAQQ BAKER’, Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015). remaining as such until November 2009. Fellow directors at the time included Respect councillor Mohammed Alyas Karmani‘MOHAMMED ALYAS KARMANI’, Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).BristleKRS, ‘On cop-spies and paid betrayers (1.4): A tangled web of burglaries, shady emails, Respect, Gorgeous George, the MCU, Doctor Bob and all’, Bristle's Blog From The BunKRS, 20 October 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Local Election Results 2012: Little Horton, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).Tracy McVeigh, ‘‘Recruiter’ of UK jihadis: I regret opening the way to Isis’, The Observer, 13 June 2015 (accessed 6 November 2015).‘MP George Galloway ‘subject of dirty tricks campaign’’, Bradford Telegraph & Argus, 16 October 2012 (accessed 8 November 2014). and businessman Najeeb Ahmed.‘NAJEEB AHMED’, Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015). As well as setting up STREET UK, Baker also created an associated business, Street Consultancy Ltd, with STREET activists Abdur Rahman Anderson and Sameer Koomson.‘STREET CONSULTANCY LIMITED’, Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2015 (accessed 18 April 2015).
:Lambert referred to Baker as “my good friend” during his Chatham House talkDr Bob Lambert & Professor Rosemary Hollis, ‘Partnering with the Muslim Community as an Effective Counter-Terrorist Strategy’, Chatham House, 20 September 2011 (accessed 17 April 2014), p6. and subsequently supervised his PhD research at the University of Exeter (as did Lambert's own academic mentor, Bill Tupman). Baker was a Fellow at the European Muslim Research Centre from 2009 until 2010, working alongside Lambert and Githens-Mazer.Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Robert Lambert, Abdul-Haqq Baker, Safiyah Cohen-Baker & Zacharias Pieri, Muslim Communities: Perspectives on Radicalisation in Leicester, UK, Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation, March 2010 (accessed 5 January 2016). Baker then took up a lecturing position at St. Andrews at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, again alongside Lambert.‘Dr A H Baker’, Abdul Haqq Baker PhD website, 2015 (accessed 7 February 2016).
:Baker's book Extremists In Our Midst: Confronting TerrorAbdul Haqq Baker, Extremists In Our Midst: Confronting Terror, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. was dedicated to the memory of Bob Lambert's acknowledged son Adam, an employee of STREET until his death in February 2011.Lambert directly refers to Adam Lambert, his work with STREET, and his untimely death in February 2011 in his talk at IISS in September of that year. See around 22 minutes into Robert Lambert & others, ‘Countering al-Qaeda in London’, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 19 September 2011 (accessed 15 April 2014).Lauren Collins, ‘The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far’, The New Yorker, August 25 2014 issue (accessed 30 September 2014).Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, C Hurst & Co, 2011, p vii. Note that this dedication indicates that Lambert had inducted his acknowledged son into his Special Branch-related work at STREET UK.Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, C Hurst & Co, 2011, p13.Mark Duell, ‘Metropolitan Police agrees to pay £425,000 compensation to woman who had child by undercover officer: She had 'psychiatric care after learning of his real identity'’, Mail Online, 24 October 2014 (accessed 8 November 2014).Glenda Cooper, ‘Bob Lambert, undercover cops, and the awful cost of sleeping with the enemy’, Daily Telegraph, 25 October 2014 (accessed 8 November 2014).
*Marie Breen Smyth: An academic based at Aberystwyth University's Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV) and specialising in religion, conflict and victim politics,Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Marie Breen Smyth’, Wikipedia.org, 2016 (accessed 22 March 2016). Breen Smyth has appeared on a number of platforms with Lambert, including his earliest known appearance at an academic conference. This was in 2006 when still as head of the Muslim Contact Unit he attended a two-day event co-organised by CSRV, titled ‘Is it Time for a Critical Terrorism Studies?’. There he shared a panel with Breen Smyth and John Horgan from CSTPV to discuss ‘Forging a Critical, Policy Relevant Research Agenda: the Way Forward’.British International Studies Association Working Group on Critical Studies on Terrorism/Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Contemporary Political Violence, Is it Time for a Critical Terrorism Studies? (conference report), University of Wales Aberystwyth website, 2006 (accessed 2 March 2016). The next year Breen Smyth and CSRV organised an event in London, ‘The Politics Of Radicalisation: Reframing The Debate And Reclaiming The Language’, which brought together academics, 'Islamists' and others, including Lambert.Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Contemporary Political Violence, ‘The Politics Of Radicalisation: Reframing The Debate And Reclaiming The Language’ (event leaflet), University of Wales Aberystwyth, 2007 (accessed 17 March 2016). 
:In 2007, Lambert returned to Aberystwyth in 2008 for ‘Trust-Building in Conflict Transformation’, a two-day conference organised by Breen Smyth and introduced. Lambert and his colleage Basia Spalek presented two sessions.Dr Marie Breen Smyth, Trust-Building in Conflict Transformation, Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence, 2008 (accessed 5 January 2016). Finally, a chapter by Lambert was included in a book edited by Breen Smyth and published in 2012 (after Lambert had been exposed), the Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence.Robert Lambert, ‘Counter-Terrorism and its Effectiveness in the UK since 1969: Does it pay to be Tough on Terrorism?’. Marie Breen-Smyth (ed.), Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, Ashgate, 2012. Breen Smyth in turn was thanked by Lambert and Jonathan Githens-Mazer in their publication London Case Study.Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert MBE, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 16 April 2014), p9.
*Jonathan Githens-Mazer: Lambert's key collaborator whilst at the University of Exeter, where the two set up and were co-directors of the European Muslim Research Centre. The pair collaborated on three major studies,Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert MBE, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 16 April 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (second edition) (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 11 June 2014).Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Robert Lambert, Abdul-Haqq Baker, Safiyah Cohen-Baker & Zacharias Pieri, Muslim Communities: Perspectives on Radicalisation in Leicester, UK, Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation, March 2010 (accessed 5 January 2016). two book chapters,Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Daniel Jeffrey & Robert Lambert, ‘Suicide terrorism; Grievance & the final act: The 7/7 bombers & suicide terrorism in the 21st Century’. Leo Sher & Alexander Vilens (ed.), Terror and Suicide, Nova Science Publishers, 2010.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘Re-visiting 7/7, Grievance and Shame’. Dr Anne Speckhard (ed.), Psychosocial, Organisational and Cultural Aspects of Terrorism: Final Report of the NATO Human Factors and Medicine Research Task Group 140, Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) Technical Report, NATO, 2011. a journal articleJonathan Githens-Mazer & Robert Lambert, ‘Why conventional wisdom on radicalization fails: the persistence of a failed discourse’. International Affairs, Volume 86 Issue 4, pp889-901 (2010). and nine newspaper or website articles.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘The demonisation of British Islamism’, The Guardian, 1 April 2009 (accessed 22 November 2014).Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Robert Lambert, ‘Reshaping Prevent’, The Guardian, 31 October 2009 (accessed 22 November 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘Let's be honest about Prevent’, The Guardian, 9 December 2009 (accessed 22 November 2014).Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Robert Lambert, ‘Quilliam on Prevent: the wrong diagnosis’, The Guardian, 19 October 2009 (accessed 22 November 2014).Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Robert Lambert, ‘Muslims in the UK: beyond the hype’, The Guardian, 28 January 2010 (accessed 22 November 2014).Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert, ‘Sentencing of protesters against war in Gaza: community concerns should not be ignored’, MEMO website, 18 February 2010 (accessed 21 March 2016).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘A hatred exposed’, The Guardian, 1 June 2010 (accessed 22 November 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘Prevent is dead. What next?’, The Guardian, 14 July 2010 (accessed 22 November 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘The fiery birth of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy: England's Summer of Discontent, ten years on’, openSecurity, 3 June 2011 (accessed 21 November 2014).
:In addition, from March 2009 (six months before they set up the EMRC) until its dissolution a year later, Githens-Mazer and his wife acted as company directors of Lambert's consultancy business, Lambert Consultancy & Training Ltd.BristleKRS, ‘On cop-spies and paid betrayers (1.2): Doctor Bob Lambert, his academic friends and the tightening purse-strings’, Bristle's Blog From The BunKRS, 6 September 2012 (accessed 18 April 2015).Companies House, ‘Lambert Consultancy and Training Limited’, Companies House (via CompanyCheck.co.uk), 2012 (accessed 6 September 2012).Details about Lambert's company are obtained from Companies House, where it has the company number 06678759. See CompaniesHouse.gov.uk
:For more detail, see Bob Lambert Consultancy
*Tim Parsons: As its former Head of Equality, Diversity and Human Rights with the rank of Chief Inspector, Parsons once occupied a similar position at the City of London Police as Bob Lambert had at the Metropolitan Police's Muslim Contact Unit. In 2006, Parsons published a Guide To Islam For Non-MuslimsMehmood Naqshbandi, A Guide To Islam For Non-Muslims, City Of London Police, 2006 (2008 web edition)(accessed 5 February 2016)., authored by Mehmood Naqshbandi, an IT consultant with private sector company Logica.Mehmood Naqshbandi, LinkedIn profile of Mehmood Naqshbandi, LinkedIn.com website, 2014 (accessed 25 November 2014). Whilst the book does not mention Lambert by name, it does praise the Muslim Contact Unit as having created “a bi-directional, trusted relationship between the Metropolitan Police and members of the Muslim community who have concerns about the way that conventional policing frequently misinterprets aspects of the Muslim community.” Lambert reciprocated with fulsome praise for the Guide in a press release issued by City Of London Police, which in turn was cited by several newspapers and other news media.Catriona Mackie, ‘City Police launch 'Guide to Islam'’, City of London Police, July 2006 (accessed via Archive.org 18 April 2015).unknown author, ‘Police officers issued with guide to Islam’, Daily Mail, 5 July 2006 (accessed 9 March 2015).Press Association, ‘Police given 'Guide to Islam' to improve relations with London Muslims’, 24dash.com, 5 July 2006 (accessed 22 March 2015). 
:Parsons is thanked by Lambert and Jonathan Githens-Mazer in their London Case Study produced through the European Muslim Research Centre.Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert MBE, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 16 April 2014), p9.
:During his time with the police, Parsons pursued an academic career. He had obtained a Master's in Education from Hull University in 2001, and in 2003 begun at King's College London (KCL) for a Doctorate. On leaving City of London police in 2010, he joined the John Grieve Centre at London Metropolitan University as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, whilst continuing his studies at KCL, which he completed in 2011.European Muslim Research Centre, ‘EMRC Advisory Board’, University of Exeter website, 5 October 2011 (accessed 1 February 2015 via Archive.org).‘Tim Parsons’, London Metropolitan University website, 2013 (accessed 28 November 2014).European Muslim Research Centre, ‘EMRC Advisory Board’, University of Exeter website, 5 October 2011 (accessed 1 February 2015 via Archive.org).‘Dr Tim Parsons’, LinkedIn.com, 2014 (accessed 21 January 2015). By his own account, Parsons has extensive experience “of teaching and lecturing in [by 2013] 20 different countries across Europe, N. America, Africa and the Middle East,” at higher education institutions including the London School of Economics, the University of Surrey, the University of Westminster, Exeter University and the Woodrow Wilson Centre in the United States. “In addition to this he has taught in a number of different global organisations and police training academies including those in London, Toronto, Warsaw, Budapest, Zagreb, Kiev, Sarajevo, Kigale (Rwanda) and Abu Dhabi.”John Grieve Centre/IBC Academy, ‘Course Faculty, MSc in Security Studies’, London Metropolitan University website, 2013 (accessed 22 March 2015).
:Parsons, in his capacity as an academic at LMU, publicly endorsed Lambert's positive view of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organisations such as the Muslim Association of Britain, noting that he could “personally testify to the value of the advice and guidance provided to the police by the MAB”.Tim Parsons, ‘Comment - Cameron and Blair: the real counter-terrorism coalition’, The Staggers Blog (on New Statesman website), 7 June 2011 (accessed 1 February 2015). From at least October 2011 until at least June 2013 Parsons was a member of the advisory board to Lambert's and Githens-Mazer's European Muslim Research Centre at Exeter. Fellow board members during his time there included Anas Altikriti (Cordoba Foundation, Muslim Association of Britain), Muhammad Abdul Bari (Muslim Council of Britain, Islamic Forum of Europe), and American academic John Esposito.European Muslim Research Centre, ‘EMRC Advisory Board’, University of Exeter website, 5 October 2011 (accessed 1 February 2015 via Archive.org). Parsons is also a member of the advisory board of American think tank Research Institute for Human Security and Cooperation,RIHSC, ‘Tim Parsons (profile)’, Research Institute for Human Security and Cooperation website, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016). where Lambert protegé and former Muslim Contact Unit colleague Detective Constable Abid Raja has a fellowship; he is a serving officer (at least until October 2015).Seth D. Rosen, Pathway to Prevention? Evaluating the United Kingdom's Approach to Counter-Radicalization (Masters thesis), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University, 12 April 2010 (accessed 2 April 2016).Shira Fishman, Community-Level Indicators of Radicalization: A Data and Methods Task Force, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, 16 February 2010 (reporting on workshops which took place 15-16 October 2009) (accessed 2 April 2016).Alfred Deakin Insitute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Addressing the New Landscape of Terrorism, Deakin University, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016).Councillor Tony Newman, ‘Cabinet Member Bulletin’, Croydon Council, October 2015 (accessed 30 March 2016).RIHSC, ‘Abid Raja (profile)’, Research Institute for Human Security and Cooperation website, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016).
:In September 2012, Lambert accepted Parsons'invitation to join the John Grieve Centre in London Metropolitan University.London Metropolitan University, Course Handbook: BSc (Hons) Criminology and Law (2012-2013), London Metropolitan University, 2012 (accessed 9 March 2015).London Metropolitan University, Course Handbook: BA (Hons) Criminology and Law (2013-2014), London Metropolitan University, 2013 (accessed 9 March 2015).London Metropolitan University, ‘Course Faculty, MSc in Security Studies’, London Metropolitan University website, 2013 (accessed 22 March 2015).‘Dr Tim Parsons’, LinkedIn.com, 2014 (accessed 21 January 2015). Lambert would also appear at a 2015 conference hosted by London university the School of Oriental and African Studies.SOAS, ‘Participants' Biographies’, School of Oriental and African Studies website, 2015 (accessed 3 January 2016).Mehmood Naqshbandi, LinkedIn profile of Mehmood Naqshbandi, LinkedIn.com website, 2014 (accessed 25 November 2014).
:In January 2015, with a public campaign to have Lambert removed from his teaching post at London Metropolitan University building support, Parsons in his capacity as Senior Criminology Lecturer at LMU appeared on a TV news programme to defend the decision to hire Lambert, and described him as “an extremely distinguished academic” with “extremely rich experience in professional practice, even accepting some of that is controversial.”Alex Bushell, ‘Critics call for London Metropolitan University to sack Bob Lambert’, 20 January 2015, BBC London News(accessed 21 January 2015). Lambert's resignation from London Met was publicly acknowledged in December 2015, as was his leaving St. Andrews University.Rob Evans, ‘Ex-undercover officer who infiltrated political groups resigns from academic posts’, The Guardian, 23 December 2015 (accessed 10 March 2016). 
*Basia Spalek: Lambert and Spalek first met in 2004, when Lambert was still a Metropolitan Police officer and heading up the Muslim Contact Unit.Robert Lambert, ‘The Muslim Safety Forum: Senior Police and Muslim Community Engagement during the War on Terror’. P. Daniel Silke, Basia Spalek & Mary O’Rawe (ed.), Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of “Success”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp73-4. In 2004 Spalek co-authored - along with others including Zamila Bunglawala (sister of leading Muslim activists Shenaz Bunglawala and Inayat Bunglawala) a report for the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program of the Open Society Institute, Muslims In The UK: Policies for Engaged Citizens, which consulted with both Lambert and his Muslim Contact Unit.Tufyal Choudhury, Maleiha Mali, Prof. J. Mark Halstead, Zamila Bunglawala & Dr. Basia Spalek, Muslims In The UK: Policies for Engaged Citizens, Open Society Institute, 2005 (accessed 15 May 2016).Inayat Bunglawala, ‘Young, Educated and Dissatisfied in the Gulf’, St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace website, 2016 (accessed 12 May 2016). 
:Lambert is credited as a “consultant and facilitator” for Spalek's 2008 report Police-Muslim Engagement and Partnerships for the Purposes of Counter-Terrorism: An Examination (University of Birmingham). Spalek, and her co-authors Salwa El Awa and Laura Zahra McDonald, thanked Lambert “for his significant help and support”, noting also the “generosity shown by members of the Muslim Safety Forum and Muslim Contact Unit”.Dr Basia Spalek, Dr Salwa El Awa & Dr Laura Zahra McDonald, Police-Muslim Engagement and Partnerships for the Purposes of Counter-Terrorism: an examination - Summary Report, University of Birmingham/Religion & Society/Arts & Humanities Research Council, 18 November 2008 (accessed 16 April 2014).Dr Basia Spalek, Dr Salwa El Awa & Dr Laura Zahra McDonald, Police Muslim Engagement and Partnerships for the Purposes of Counter-Terrorism: An Examination, ESRC/Religion & Society/AHRC, May 2009 (accessed via National Archives 22 March 2016). 
:Lambert was also listed as a formal research partner of the core University of Birmingham team in a project summary supplied to funding body Religion & Society.Dr B Spalek, ‘Small Research Projects: An Examination of Partnership Approaches to Challenging Religiously-Endorsed Violence involving Muslim Groups and Police’ (project summary), Religion & Society website, 2008 (accessed 22 March 2016). In a follow-up report, A study exploring questions relating to the relationship between Police and Muslim Communities in the Prevention of Violent Extremism amongst Muslim Youth, Lambert was cited as a ‘Consultant’ to the project, with companies STREET and Siraat, among those listed as ‘Research Partners’.Dr B Spalek, ‘Small Research Projects: A study exploring questions relating to the relationship between Police and Muslim Communities in the Prevention of Violent Extremism amongst Muslim Youth’ (project summary), Religion & Society website, 2011 (accessed 22 March 2016). 
:* For more detail on Lambert's directorship of companies, see Bob Lambert Consultancy
:In July 2011 Lambert represented the CSTPV in "a new collaborative hub developed with practitioners, community organisations and academics" set up with Dr. Basia Spalek and Dr. Laura Zara McDonald,founders of Police Community Engagement for Conflict Resolution at the University of Birmingham.Robert Lambert, Staff profile page, Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews website, 2012 (accessed 19 April 2014).
:Lambert and Spalek have subsequently shared a number of conference platformsAkanksha Mehta & Nathan Tuvia Cohen (ed.), International Conference on Community Engagement 21-22 September 2011, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2011 (accessed 5 January 2016).Fryshuset Exit, British Council & University of St. Andrews, Disengagement amongst Youths, University of St. Andrews website, 2009 (accessed 5 January 2016).Dr Marie Breen Smyth, Trust-Building in Conflict Transformation, Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence, 2008 (accessed 5 January 2016). and co-authored book chapters.Basia Spalek & Robert Lambert, ‘Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Muslim Community Engagement post 9/11’. Rebecca Roberts & Will McMahon (ed.), Social Justice and Criminal Justice, Centre for Crime & Justice Studies, 2007.Basia Spalek, Robert Lambert & Abdul Haqq Baker, ‘Minority Muslim Communities and Criminal Justice: Stigmatized UK Faith Identities Post 9/11 and 7/7’. Hindpal Singh Bui (ed.), Race and Criminal Justice, SAGE, 2009.Basia Spalek & Robert Lambert, ‘Policing within a Counter-Terrorism Context Post 7/7: The Importance of Partnership, Dialogue and Support when Engaging with Muslim Communities’. Roger Eatwell & Matthew J. Goodwin (ed.), The 'New' Extremism in 21st Century Britain, Routledge, 2010. In addition Spalek has written a glowing review of Lambert's bookBasia Spalek, ‘Countering Al-Qaeda In London: Police And Muslims In Partnership’, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, September 2013 (accessed 5 January 2016).Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, Hurst & Company, 2011., cited him extensively in her own work (including in unpublished manuscriptsBasia Spalek, Community Policing within a Counter-Terrorism Context: the role of trust when working with Muslim communities to prevent terror crime , n/a, September 2009 (accessed 7 October 2015).) In a book she co-edited, Lambert was invited to write a chapter trumpeting the work of the Muslim Safety Forum; Spalek had been an academic observer to the MSF from December 2007 until July 2008.Robert Lambert, ‘The Muslim Safety Forum: Senior Police and Muslim Community Engagement during the War on Terror’. P. Daniel Silke, Basia Spalek & Mary O’Rawe (ed.), Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of “Success”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Basia Spalek, ‘Community Policing within a Counter-Terrorism Context: the role of trust when working with Muslim communities to prevent terror crime’ (unpublished draft), September 2009 (accessed 7 October 2015). 
:Spalek co-authored a paper in the academic journal Critical Studies on Terrorism specifically addressing the issue of Lambert's public exposure as a police infiltrator and provocateur;Basia Spalek & Mary O'Rawe, ‘Researching counterterrorism: a critical perspective from the field in the light of allegations and findings of covert activities by undercover police officers’. Critical Studies on Terrorism Volume 7 Number 1, pp150-164 (2014). the same issue also gave space to Lambert for his response to the allegations.Robert Lambert, ‘Researching counterterrorism: a personal perspective from a former undercover police officer’. Critical Studies on Terrorism Volume 7 Number 1, pp165-181 (2014).
*Bill Tupman: Tupman is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University, having retired as a senior lecturer there in 2005.Bill Tupman, ‘Mr Bill Tupman’, University of Exeter website, 2012 (accessed 22 March 2016).Bill Tupman, ‘Bill Tupman's Webpages’, University of Exeter website, 2008 (accessed 22 March 2016). Lambert first met Tupman in 2004;Robert Lambert, ‘The Muslim Safety Forum: Senior Police and Muslim Community Engagement during the War on Terror’. P. Daniel Silke, Basia Spalek & Mary O’Rawe (ed.), Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of “Success”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p74. with Tupman going on to supervise Lambert's PhD. They also co-wrote an article for INTERSEC: The Journal of International Security in 2007.Bob Lambert & Bill Tupman, ‘Building Bridges’, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, 2007 (accessed via WorldCat 5 January 2016).University of Exeter Press Office, ‘Counter terrorism research published’, University of Exeter website, 7 September 2011 (accessed 18 February 2015). 
:Notably, Lambert has described Tupman as something of a mentor, and that he “was encouraged to move into academia myself when [he] read Bill Tupman’s critique of the war on terror as failing to have legitimacy and failing to have the reduction of the number of new terrorists as its objective or outcome.”Richard Jackson, ‘Counter-terrorism and communities: an interview with Robert Lambert’, Critical Studies on Terrorism volume 1 number 2, August 2008 (accessed 16 June 2014). In 2013 Lambert again referred to the impact of Tupman's paper had had, stating that it “provided the stimulus for my research, and he played a key role in allowing me to develop my own local analysis.”Bill Tupman & Carina O’Reilly, ‘Terrorism, Hegemony and Legitimacy: Evaluating success and failure in the War on Terror’, University of Exeter, Political Studies Association, 2004 (accessed via Archive.org 18 April 2016).Robert Lambert, ‘The Muslim Safety Forum: Senior Police and Muslim Community Engagement during the War on Terror’. P. Daniel Silke, Basia Spalek & Mary O’Rawe (ed.), Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of “Success”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p74. (Elsewhere Lambert notes “the positive audience reaction to Bill Tupman’s deconstruction of the war on terror was evident at the first Islam Expo gathering at Alexandra Palace in 2006.”)Robert Lambert, ‘The Strength of Local Partnerships: Overcoming Obstacles During the War on Terror’, Arches Quarterly, Spring 2012 (accessed 22 November 2014).
:Tupman is the first person Lambert thanks in the acknowledgements of his book, acclaiming him as "the one and only Bill Tupman...[who] has unique experience of guiding police officers through the hazards of academic research,” and describing Abdul Haqq Baker as “a fellow Tupman protegé.”Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, Hurst & Company, 2011, p.xi.
*David Veness: A successful career officer - having joined the Met as a cadet in 1964, he ended his police career in 2005 having reached the heights of Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations‘VENESS, Sir David (Christopher)’, Who's Who website, 2016 (accessed 24 April 2016). - David Veness and his policing interests have intersected with or mirrored those of Lambert in several ways.
:As ACSO from 1994 onward, Veness was personally responsible for the annual authorisation of the Special Demonstration Squad per protocols in place between 1989 and 2000; this covers Lambert's entire tenure as Operational Controller of the SDS from November 1993 until some time in 1998.Chief Constable Mick Creedon, Operation Herne - Report 2: Allegations of Peter Francis (first edition), Derbyshire Constabulary, 2014 (accessed 16 April 2014), p20.Chief Constable Mick Creedon, Operation Herne - Report 2: Allegations of Peter Francis (second edition), Derbyshire Constabulary, 2014 (accessed 16 April 2014), p20.
:Following 9/11 Veness, like Lambert, acquired an interest in working with Muslim organisations, and from 2001-2003 in his capacity as ACSO he regularly chaired meetings of the Muslim Safety Forum; Lambert, as head of the Muslim Contact Unit from its creation in early 2002, was similarly a regular attender. Lambert notes that Veness had, during his unusually long, eleven year tenure as ACSO built up strong rapport with many community representatives, something that his four successors (Andy Hayman, Bob Quick, John Yates, Cressida Dick) in the six years until the MSF's closure in 2011 never managed. Lambert notes Veness' encouragement, both of him personally and of the MCU in general, to continue to engage with communities in this way. He also points to how, following Veness' departure Scotland Yard preferred to send community relations rather than counter-terrorism officers to MSF.Robert Lambert, ‘The Muslim Safety Forum: Senior Police and Muslim Community Engagement during the War on Terror’. P. Daniel Silke, Basia Spalek & Mary O’Rawe (ed.), Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of “Success”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp70-71.It is perhaps worth mentioning that Lambert writes approvingly here of how Veness “took a keen interest in the MSF, committed time and energy to it, and shared the view of his colleague John Grieve that police benefited from engaging with stern community critics rather than ‘nodding dogs’, that is to say, overly compliant community representatives.” (Robert Lambert, ‘The Muslim Safety Forum: Senior Police and Muslim Community Engagement during the War on Terror’. P. Daniel Silke, Basia Spalek & Mary O’Rawe (ed.), Preventing Ideological Violence: Communities, Police and Case Studies of “Success”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p71.) Grieve, of course, founded the school of criminology at London Metropolitan University which bore his name and at which Lambert taught from Autumn 2012 until the end of 2015. Lambert also offered praise to Veness when he spoke at Strathclyde University's ‘9/11 Ten Years On’ conference in September 2011.David Miller, ‘Public meeting: From 9/11 to the Arab Spring, The Norway killings and the English riots: What have we learned about political violence and terrorism?’, A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (blog), 28 August 2011 (accessed 8 February 2016).Mancha Productions, ‘Bob Lambert, Plenary: Muslim Partners or Muslim Extremists?’, via Vimeo, filmed 8 September 2011 (accessed 9 February 2016).
:After retirement Veness was bestowed with an honorary professorship by the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews (where Lambert taught on the Terrorism Studies course from 2008 until 2015).‘International Relations Staff Profiles’, University of St. Andrews website, 14 October 2009 (accessed via Archive.org 24 April 2016).‘Sir David Veness’, University of St. Andrews website, 2016 (accessed 24 April 2016).
*David Miller: An academic specialising in critical terrorism studies, a co-founder of Spinwatch and an editor on the related Powerbase website.David Miller, ‘Professor David Miller (staff profile page)’, University of Bath website, 2016 (accessed 22 March 2016).DavidMiller, ‘Introducing David’, Dmiller.info, 2016 (accessed 22 March 2016).Spinwatch, ‘Who we are’, Spinwatch.org, 2016 (accessed 22 March 2016).Spinwatch, ‘David Miller (profile page)’, Spinwatch.org, 2016 (accessed 22 March 2016). Miller and Lambert were both speakers the CSRV conference (co-organised by the British International Studies Association Working Group on Critical Studies on Terrorism, of which Miller is a member) in Manchester in October 2006. In November of the same year Miller reflects upon this conference in an article on the Spinwatch website, and in particular the contributions of Bob Lambert, “One of the more interesting speakers at the conference,” whom he describes as “at the liberal end of the Special Branch, in its eight person Muslim Contact Unit.”David Miller, ‘'Terrorism studies' and the war on dissent’, Spinwatch website, 6 November 2006 (accessed 22 March 2016).
:In September 2011, Miller and the British International Studies Association’s Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group organised another conference, ‘A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-terrorism since 9/11’, taking place in Glasgow over several days.Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group, ‘A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-terrorism since 9/11: Taking stock and new directions in research and policy - call for papers’, University of Strathclyde website, 2011 (accessed 16 February 2015).David Miller, ‘Conference programme overview’, A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-terrorism blog, 28 August 2011 (accessed 5 January 2016). Lambert is a keynote speaker, undertaking a research workshop alongside Richard Jackson, leading a plenary session, and launching his newly published book.Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, Hurst & Company, 2011. Later that month Miller and Lambert both give expert evidence at an immigration hearing for Sheikh Raed Salah,a leader the Islamist Movement of Israel. Salah lost this hearing but would win on appeal.Asa Winstanley, ‘UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial’, Electronic Intifada website, 30 September 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Asa Winstanley, ‘UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial’, MEMO website, 1 October 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Ben Quinn, ‘Palestinian activist wins appeal against deportation’, The Guardian, 9 April 2012 (accessed 21 March 2016).David Hearst, ‘Theresa May's haste to ban Raed Salah will be repented at leisure’, The Guardian, 9 April 2012 (accessed 21 March 2016). In October Lambert joins Miller for the launch at the Houses of Parliament of a new Spinwatch report on Islamophobia, entitled The Cold War On British Muslims, an event sponsored by both Middle East Monitor and the Cordoba Foundation (which also sponsored the book’s publication).Samira Quraishy, ‘Event Review: The Cold War on British Muslims - The Instigators and Funders’, MEMO website, 12 October 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).‘The Cold War On British Muslims’ (flyer), Midddle East Monitor/The Cordoba Foundation, 2011 (accessed via Harry's Place blog 10 March 2016). Lambert and Githens-Mazer are among those thanked in the acknowledgements of the book.Tom Mills, Tom Griffin & David Miller, The Cold War On British Muslims: An Examination Of Policy Exchange And The Centre For Social Cohesion, Spinwatch (sponsored by the Cordoba Foundation), September 2011 (accessed 4 March 2016), p53.
:Following Lambert's exposure in mid-October,London Greenpeace, ‘Undercover police agent publicly outed at conference’, Indymedia UK, 15 October 2011 (accessed 15 March 2014).Rob Evans & Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, Faber & Faber, 2013, pp59-61; 331-332.Stopinfiltration@mail.com, ‘The truth about Bob Lambert and his Special Branch role’, Indymedia UK, 15 October 2011 (accessed 23 April 2014). David Miller and Spinwatch ended all cooperation with Lambert; Spinwatch' wiki Powerbase would later host the profile portal of the Undercover Research Group.
:Spinwatch Founded in 2005, Spinwatch is one of two twin projects of Public Interest Investigations (PII) (the other being the wiki-based Powerbase site on which this URG research is hosted), and “investigates the way that the public relations (PR) industry and corporate and government propaganda distort public debate and undermine democracy.” One of its main areas of interest is Islamophobia.‘About us’, Spinwatch website, 2016 (accessed 12 May 2016). This common research area saw it encounter Lambert as early as 2006, when he was still heading up the Muslim Contact Unit, with both David Miller of Spinwatch and Lambert making presentations at ‘Is it Time for a Critical Terrorism Studies?’, a two day conference organised jointly by the British International Studies Association Working Group on Critical Studies on Terrorism and Aberystwyth University's Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV).British International Studies Association Working Group on Critical Studies on Terrorism/Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Contemporary Political Violence, Is it Time for a Critical Terrorism Studies? (conference report), University of Wales Aberystwyth website, 2006 (accessed 2 March 2016). Miller subsequently described Lambert as “at the liberal end of the Special Branch, in its eight person Muslim Contact Unit,” and someone who “promotes the idea of partnership working with muslim community organisations.”David Miller, ‘'Terrorism studies' and the war on dissent’, Spinwatch website, 6 November 2006 (accessed 22 March 2016).
:In December 2010 Miller was a guest speaker at a launch event of the Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies report by Lambert and Jonathan Githens-Mazer in Glasgow.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014).Cordoba Foundation, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies, Cordoba Foundation website, 2010 (accessed 9 February 2016).University of Exeter Press Office, ‘Muslims face higher level of threats outside the big cities’, University of Exeter website, 26 November 2010 (17 March 2016). In September 2011, Miller and others from the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (CSTWG) of the British International Studies Association organised a series of events in Glasgow to mark the decade since 9/11 from a critical terrorism studies perspective; Lambert was a key speaker at several events.David Miller, ‘Public meeting: From 9/11 to the Arab Spring, The Norway killings and the English riots: What have we learned about political violence and terrorism?’, A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (blog), 28 August 2011 (accessed 8 February 2016).Mancha Productions, ‘Bob Lambert, Plenary: Muslim Partners or Muslim Extremists?’, via Vimeo, filmed 8 September 2011 (accessed 9 February 2016).Richard Jackson, ‘Counter-terrorism and communities: an interview with Robert Lambert’, Critical Studies on Terrorism volume 1 number 2, August 2008 (accessed 16 June 2014).David Miller, ‘Conference programme overview’, A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (blog), 28 August 2011 (accessed 5 January 2016).During his talk Lambert presented a slide illustrating individuals whom he characterised as critics of his work: Martin Bright, Nick Cohen, Andrew Gilligan, Dean Godson, Michael Gove, Ed Husain, Gilles Kepel, Douglas Murray and Melanie Phillips. See ‘Strathclyde Nine’ section for more details. Later on that same September, both Lambert and Miller were presented as expert witnesses in the immigration tribunal deciding whether the Home Office was right to arrest, detain and attempt to deport Sheikh Raed Salah, a leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, who came to Britain for a speaking tour at the invitation of Daud Abdullah's Middle East Monitor (MEMO).Asa Winstanley, ‘UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial’, Electronic Intifada website, 30 September 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Asa Winstanley, ‘UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial’, MEMO, 1 October 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Tom Whitehead, ‘Banned preacher can be removed says tribunal’, Daily Telegraph, 27 October 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016). Salah later secured victory in the Upper Immigration Tribunal.Ben Quinn, ‘Palestinian activist wins appeal against deportation’, The Guardian, 9 April 2012 (accessed 21 March 2016).David Hearst, ‘Theresa May's haste to ban Raed Salah will be repented at leisure’, The Guardian, 9 April 2012 (accessed 21 March 2016). Four days before his exposure as a former police spy, in October 2011 Lambert was a speaker at a book launch at the House of Commons for the Spinwatch report The Cold War On British Muslims, written by David Miller, Tom Mills and Tom Griffin (an editor of the openDemocracy blog OurKingdom). All three authors appear, alongside Daud Abdullah of MEMO and Anas Altikriti from the Cordoba Foundation, whose organisations jointly host the event, the Cordoba Foundation also having funded the report. Simon Danczuk MP is the official sponsor of the event, whilst CND's Kate Hudson, the originally advertised chair of the event, is replaced on the night by former Guardian associate foreign editor Victoria Brittain.Tom Mills, Tom Griffin & David Miller, The Cold War On British Muslims: An Examination Of Policy Exchange And The Centre For Social Cohesion, Spinwatch (sponsored by the Cordoba Foundation), September 2011 (accessed 4 March 2016).Midddle East Monitor and The Cordoba Foundation, ‘The Cold War On British Muslims’ (flyer), MEMO/Cordoba Foundation, 2011 (accessed via Harry's Place blog 10 March 2016).Samira Quraishy, ‘Event Review: The Cold War on British Muslims - The Instigators and Funders’, MEMO website, 12 October 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016). A further scheduled appearance by Lambert to promote his book and the Spinwatch report at the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel alongside David Miller and fellow academic Rizwaan Sabir (then Strathclyde, now Bath) in November was cancelled after Lambert's exposure.Cordoba Foundation/Spinwatch, ‘The launch of two ground-breaking research pieces’ (event flyer, via Harry's Place website, 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘“Unforseen circumstances”’, Harry's Place website, 29 October 2011 (21 March 2016).Cordoba Foundation, ‘Cancellation of the Reports Launch’, Cordoba Foundation website, 29 October 2011 (accessed via via Archive.org 21 March 2016).
:Following the public unmasking of Lambert as an undercover police officer who had infiltrated London Greenpeace as ‘Bob Robinson’, Spinwatch addressed a public letter to Lambert stating that it believes “that you need to make a public statement confirming or denying the specific allegations so far made public. In addition, if any of the allegations are true, you need to give an account of what you now think of your previous activities. We repeat: In our view your current activities and your alleged past activities are not compatible.”David Miller, ‘An open letter to Bob Lambert’, Spinwatch website, 20 October 2011 (accessed 29 April 2015). A few days later Lambert replied, confirming that he had been an undercover officer, that he had infiltrated London Greenpeace, that he had entered into an intimate relationship with one woman, and that he had later taken on a supervisory role at the unit. He also claimed that he wanted “to begin a process on conflict resolution in this difficult and sensitive arena,“ adding that “By working in partnership we have an opportunity to enhance public safety and to promote the value of non violent protest as a more effective tactic than political violence - whether committed by state or non state actors.”Robert Lambert, ‘Bob Lambert replies to Spinwatch’, Spinwatch website, 23 October 2011 (accessed 16 April 2014). In response to this, Spinwatch published a rebuttal in early November: “Spinwatch’s work and commitment is not compatible with Bob Lambert’s history as an infiltrator, the details about his past that have come to light so far, and the way he reflects on it in retrospect.”David Miller & Eveline Lubbers, ‘Statement: Spinwatch stands in solidarity with the infiltrated’, Spinwatch website, 2 November 2011 (accessed 29 April 2015).
==Notable critics and criticism==
Though Lambert’s approach to community engagement and deradicalisation was welcomed in some parts of academia, police and the media, others raised objections to it, labeling it ‘Lambertism’.
===Mohamed Ali Harrath incident===
In 2008 Lambert was alleged to have had as an adviser whilst head of the Muslim Contact Unit a man who had been named on an Interpol watchlist. The furore began with an article in The Times,Richard Kerbaj & Dominic Kennedy, ‘Unanswered questions about a ‘man of peace’ on Interpol list’, The Times, 15 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015). about Mohamed Ali Harrath, the founder of British-based television company the Islam Channel, who had co-founded the Front Islamique Tunisien in 1986 before seeking asylum in the UK in 1995.
Some newspapers claimed he has been an ‘adviser’ to the Muslim Contact Unit, but no direct evidence was proffered. The Met issued official denials, but in his column for The Times former senior police officer Andy Hayman appeared to accept the story as accurate.Andy Hayman, ‘The risk of good policing intelligence’, The Times, 16 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015). (Hayman had been Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations at the Met from February 2005 until December 2007, and as such had management responsibility for MCU and its parent unit Special Branch.) After that the story was recycled widely.unknown author, ‘Man wanted by Interpol for terrorist offences 'advising Scotland Yard'’, Daily Telegraph, 15 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015).Chris Irvine, ‘Police adviser should be sacked over terror links, says Baroness Neville-Jones’, Daily Telegraph, 16 December 2008 (accessed 27 April 2015).Andrew Gilligan, ‘The security minister and the Islamist-linked TV station’, Daily Telegraph, 26 May 2010 (accessed 27 April 2015).Charlotte Gill, ‘Wanted terror suspect is 'Scotland Yard advisor on Muslim extremism'’, Daily Mail, 15 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015).Melanie Phillips, ‘Lunacy at Scotland Yard’, Family Security Matters, 16 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015).
Harrath received from Lambert a letter of endorsement in his efforts to be removed from Interpol's ‘Red Notice’ international extradition request list.Richard Kerbaj & Dominic Kennedy, ‘Tunisia claims exile met Osama bin Laden and recruited trainees for terror camps’, The Times, 15 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015). Also said to have provided an endorsement to Harrath was Special Branch's Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Mitchell,Richard Kerbaj & Dominic Kennedy, ‘‘Nothing criminal about trying to establish an Islamic state’’, The Times, 15 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015).Leslie Dauncey (press officer), ‘Senate Defence Committee to Conduct Fact-Finding on Terrorism and Port Security in the UK, The Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates’, Parliament of Canada website, 1 September 2006 (accessed 4 May 2015).Alan Mitchell, ‘Met response: Role of Robert Quick in regard to investigation into Damian Green MP’, WhatDoTheyKnow.com, 9 January 2009 (accessed 5 February 2016). who had previouslym been a line manager for the National Public Order Intelligence Unit.The Hon. Mr Justice Tugendhat, Judgment in the matter of Austin & Saxby v Commissioner of the Metropolis - EWHC 480 (QB), High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division), 23 March 2005 (accessed 23 April 2014).
===Raed Salah deportation affair===
In June, 2011 Lambert was a signatory to an open letter which condemned the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah, a prominent Palestinian leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, who had been invited to the UK for a speaking tour by Daud Abdullah's Middle East Monitor (MEMO).MEMO, ‘Pro-Justice activists condemn the detention of Sheikh Raed Salah’, MEMO website, 29 June 2011 (accessed 19 March 2016). In July he emphasised his support for Salah in an article published both by Al Jazeera and MEMO.Robert Lambert, ‘Fighting 'hate speech' smears on Sheikh Salah’, Al Jazeera English website, 1 July 2011 (21 March 2016).Dr Robert Lambert, ‘Fighting 'hate speech' smears on Sheikh Salah’, MEMO website, 1 July 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).
In September Lambert joined David Miller of Spinwatch as an expert witness in the immigration tribunal which decided whether the Home Office was right to arrest, detain and attempt to deport Salah.Asa Winstanley, ‘UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial’, Electronic Intifada website, 30 September 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Asa Winstanley, ‘UK government conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism in Salah trial’, MEMO, 1 October 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Whilst Salah lost his initial tribunal,Tom Whitehead, ‘Banned preacher can be removed says tribunal’, Daily Telegraph, 27 October 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016). he later secured victory in the Upper Immigration Tribunal.Ben Quinn, ‘Palestinian activist wins appeal against deportation’, The Guardian, 9 April 2012 (accessed 21 March 2016).David Hearst, ‘Theresa May's haste to ban Raed Salah will be repented at leisure’, The Guardian, 9 April 2012 (accessed 21 March 2016).
For his involvement in the affair, Lambert was criticised by the likes of former Hizb ut Tahrir activist-turned-Quilliam Foundation associate‘Rashad Ali: Terrorism? Well, clamp down on HT!’, ENGAGE website, 3 January 2010 (accessed 4 April 2016).Faisal Haque, ‘Who is Rashad Zaman Ali?’, The ‘Islamist’ blog, 26 September 2007 (accessed 4 April 2016).‘Rashad Ali’, The Guardian, 2008 (accessed 4 April 2016).‘Posts by Rashad Ali’, ConservativeHome, 2014 (accessed 4 April 2016). Rashad Ali,Rashad Ali, ‘Bob Lambert is wrong about Raed Salah - hate preacher, anti-semite and conspiracy theorist’, ConservativeHome, 2 June 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 22 June 2016). as well as Lambert's vociferous critics at the Harry's Place blog.Lucy Lips, ‘Guess Who Has Just Come Out As A Raed Salah Supporter?’, Harry's Place, 30 June 2011 (accessed 27 June 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Raed Salah: Kick This Racist Scum Out Now’, Harry's Place, 27 October 2011 (accessed 27 June 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘The Stupid Bravado of Raed Salah’, Harry's Place, 28 October 2011 (accessed 27 June 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Friends of Raed Salah: MEMO, Asa Winstanley were lied to by the Sheikh’, Harry's Place, 29 October 2011 (accessed 27 June 2016).
===‘Strathclyde Nine’===
During a presentation at a weekend of events organised by the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (CSTWG) of the British International Studies Association (including David Miller of Spinwatch) at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow to mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in September 2011,David Miller, ‘Public meeting: From 9/11 to the Arab Spring, The Norway killings and the English riots: What have we learned about political violence and terrorism?’, A Decade of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (blog), 28 August 2011 (accessed 8 February 2016). Lambert identified nine individuals as exemplifying criticism of his work: 
Martin Bright, Nick Cohen, Andrew Gilligan, Dean Godson, Michael Gove, Ed Husain, Douglas Murray, Gilles Kepel and Melanie Phillips. See from 9 min 5 sec: Mancha Productions, ‘Bob Lambert, Plenary: Muslim Partners or Muslim Extremists?’, via Vimeo, filmed 8 September 2011 (accessed 9 February 2016).In his 2010 book about the UK government's historical and ongoing engagement with radical Islam, Mark Curtis independently identified four of these nine as being opposed to what might be seen as ‘Lambertism’: “New Labour's policy of engaging with the Muslim Brotherhood provoked criticism from right-wing writers like Melanie Phillips and the Conservative MP Michael Gove, as well as liberal journalists like Nick Cohen and Martin Bright, to whom the Foreign Office memos were leaked.” He also notes the criticism from these quarters of Ken Livingstone inviting Sheikh Qaradawi to London, and of the Stop the War Coalition's campaigning on the Iraq War and Palestine alongside the Muslim Association of Britain - again touchstone issues which Lambert could be seen as very close to. See: Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Secret Collusion with Radical Islam, Serpent's Tail, 2012 (updated edition), p307.
*Martin Bright: At various times a journalist and political editor with publications including The Guardian, The Observer, New Statesman, the Jewish Chronicle and The Spectator,Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Martin Bright’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016).Martin Bright, ‘Martin Bright (profile)’, The Guardian website, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016). in 2006 wrote a highly critical report on the Islamist links of the Muslim Council of Britain for the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange. The report, When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British state's flirtation with radical Islamism, was based on documents leaked to him in 2005 by a whistleblower within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.Martin Bright, When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British state's flirtation with radical Islamism, Policy Exchange, July 2006 (accessed 17 April 2014). Subsequently Bright has penned a number of other pieces specifically attacking Lambert,Martin Bright, ‘How a humble policeman backed Islamism’, Jewish Chronicle, 14 April 2011 (accessed 30 March 2016). Martin Bright, ‘Livingstone's Islamist guru was an undercover cop’, Jewish Chronicle, 27 October 2011 (accessed 30 March 2016). Martin Bright, ‘New questions on Exeter's Middle East funding’, Jewish Chronicle, 14 April 2011 (accessed 30 March 2016). Martin Bright, ‘Universities and Gaddafi: is there more?’, Jewish Chronicle, 10 March 2011 (accessed 30 March 2016). or others he considers beholden to Islamists, such as Ken Livingstone. Martin Bright, ‘Ken thinks he was never wrong. I beg to differ’, Jewish Chronicle, 3 November 2011 (accessed 30 March 2016).
*Nick Cohen: Whilst left/liberal journalist CohenNick Cohen, ‘Nick Cohen: Writing from London’, NickCohen.net blog, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016).Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Nick Cohen’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016). was not notably a critic specifically of Lambert or the Muslim Contact Unit in the years before Lambert's exposure, he was a significant personality behind the Euston Manifesto, and a writer for news magazine New Statesman, which was also closely associated with it.Norman Geras, Damian Counsell, Alan Johnson & Shalom Lappin, ‘The Euston Manifesto’, The Euston Manifesto website, 2006 (accessed 2 April 2016).Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Euston Manifesto’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016). Subsequent to Lambert's exposure, Cohen did pen a 2014 article highly critical of Lambert and asking whether his pro-Muslim Brotherhood work with the Muslim Contact Unit had parallels to his time with the SDS:Nick Cohen, ‘Why must we tolerate police spies in our midst?’, The Guardian, 21 December 2014 (accessed 9 March 2015). 
:::Bob Lambert, to take the most ghoulish case, groomed an animal rights protester. As part of his role playing, he got her pregnant and then abandoned her and their infant son when she was no longer of use.
*Andrew Gilligan: Formerly a BBC radio defence correspondent now working predominantly for right-leaning newspapers and magazines such as the Telegraph and The Spectator,Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Andrew Gilligan’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016). Gilligan has been a notable critic of perceived Islamist sympathisers in general, and Bob Lambert in particular.Andrew Gilligan, ‘The Guardian falls for an extremist lie’, Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2010 (accessed 30 March 2016).Andrew Gilligan, ‘Policy Exchange vs North London Mosque: case closed’, Daily Telegraph, 3 November 2010 (accessed 30 March 2016).Andrew Gilligan, ‘Islamophobia: is this the year's most embarrassing academic report?’, Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2010 (accessed 2 April 2016). Gilligan has also contributed to two Policy Exchange reports.Andrew Gilligan, Zac Goldsmith, Gavin Lockhart, Steve Malanga, James Morris, Cllr Phil Taylor & Tony Travers (ed. James Morris & Natalie Evans), The million vote mandate, Policy Exchange, 2008 (accessed 4 April 2016).Paul Buchanan, Andrew Gilligan, Zac Goldsmith, Cynthia Grant, Steve Norris and Neil O'Brien, At A Rate Of Knots: Improving public transport on the River Thames, Policy Exchange, 2009 (accessed 4 April 2016).
*Dean Godson: A former writer for the Telegraph papers as well as The Spectator and Prospect magazines, Godson joined right-wing think tank Policy Exchange in 2005 and ran its International Affairs research unit from 2006 until 2013, when he was appointed PE's director.‘Dean Godson’, Policy Exchange website, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). Godson already had a background in right-wing think tanks, having been a research fellow at the Institute for European Defence and Strategic StudiesVarious WikiSpooks contributors, ‘Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies’, WikiSpooks, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). (a British conduit for funding from the Cold Warriors of the conservative American Heritage Foundation)Various WikiSpooks contributors, ‘Heritage Foundation’, WikiSpooks, 2015 (accessed 4 April 2016). in the late 1980s.Tom Mills, Tom Griffin & David Miller, The Cold War On British Muslims: An Examination Of Policy Exchange And The Centre For Social Cohesion, Spinwatch (sponsored by the Cordoba Foundation), September 2011 (accessed 4 March 2016), p6. In addition, he has a family history of connections to think tanksTom Easton, ‘Who were they travelling with?’, Lobster Number 31, 1996 (accessed 4 April 2016). whilst his brother Roy “is an expert on covert action and disinformation,”Tom Mills, Tom Griffin & David Miller, The Cold War On British Muslims: An Examination Of Policy Exchange And The Centre For Social Cohesion, Spinwatch (sponsored by the Cordoba Foundation), September 2011 (accessed 4 March 2016), p39. and involvement in intelligence and security agencies.Dr Rob Johnston, Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study, Centre for the Study of Intelligence (CIA), 2005.K. Lee Lerner & Brenda Wilmouth Lerner (ed.), Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security, Thomson Gale, 2004.Ephraim Kahana & Muhammad Suwaed, Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009.Richard L. Russell, Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA gets it wrong, and what needs to be done to get it right, Cambridge University Press, 2007.David Teacher, Rogue Agents: Habsburg, Pinay and the Private Cold War 1951-1991, self-published(?), 1993.
:Lambert has crossed swords with Godson and Policy Exchange for their antipathy towards his brand of engagement with Islamists for several years,Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert MBE, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 16 April 2014).Dr Robert Lambert, ‘Murdoch's dirty tricks against Palestinians’, MEMO website, 11 July 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Robert Lambert, ‘Murdoch's dirty tricks against Palestinians’, Al Jazeera English website, 11 July 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Basia Spalek & Robert Lambert, ‘Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Muslim Community Engagement post 9/11’. Rebecca Roberts & Will McMahon (ed.), Social Justice and Criminal Justice, Centre for Crime & Justice Studies, 2007. with one commentator summarising Godson's position as thus: “that Lambert and his MCU colleagues suffered from a form of “Stockholm Syndrome”, buying into the Islamists’ positive depiction of their ideology while turning a blind eye to their extremism”.Paul Sims, ‘Crossing the line?’, New Humanist, 4 November 2011 (accessed 3 February 2015). Lambert has described Godson - along with his former Telegraph boss and now Policy Exchange trustee Charles Moore - as “the architects of policy exchange policy that stigmatises muslim organisations”.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (second edition) (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 11 June 2014). For his part, Godson has called Lambert's style of engagement with Islamists to be “as if the government responded to a violent insurgency from the neo-Nazi terrorists of Combat 18 by turning to Nick Griffin of the BNP”.Dean Godson, ‘No way to combat terrorism’, The Times, 25 March 2008 (accessed 4 April 2016).Richard Jackson, ‘Counter-terrorism and communities: an interview with Robert Lambert’, Critical Studies on Terrorism volume 1 number 2, August 2008 (accessed 16 June 2014). Lambert has also accused Godson of levelling the slur ‘Islamo-fascist’ against him.Mancha Productions, ‘Bob Lambert, Plenary: Muslim Partners or Muslim Extremists?’, via Vimeo, filmed 8 September 2011 (accessed 9 February 2016).
*Michael Gove: Politician and former journalist Gove has long been interested in the issue of Islamist extremism.Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Michael Gove’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). In 2006 he published a book summarising the neoconservative view of Islamism, Celsius 7/7.Michael Gove, Celsius 7/7, Phoenix, 2006.
:Gove was an advisor to the Quilliam Foundation ‘counter extremism think tank’ set up by former Hizb ut Tahrir activists Ed Husain, Maajid Nawaz and Rashad Ali from its formal incorporation in 2007 until its public launch in April 2008;‘Advisors’, Quilliam Foundation website, 20 April 2008 (accessed via Archive.org 4 April 2016). after that the names of Gove - and other advisors - were removed from Quilliam's website in light of the foundation's decision “to respect our advisors' wishes that they continue to advise us in private [and that] to save them the indignity of constant Islamist-Wahhabite harrassment...[Quilliam would] no longer publicise their names.”‘Advisors’, Quilliam Foundation website, 27 May 2008 (accessed via Archive.org 4 April 2016).
*Ed Husain: An ex-Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT, or HT) activist, and formerly with the Islamic Forum of Europe's youth wing the Young Muslim Organisation,Ed Husain, The Islamist, Penguin, 2007.Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Ed Husain’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). Husain later broke with radical Islamism and co-founded “the world’s first counter-extremism think tank” the Quilliam Foundation‘About Us’, Quilliam Foundation website, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016).‘FAQs’, Quilliam Foundation website, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). with fellow former HT members Maajid NawazMaajid Nawaz with Tom Bromley, Radical, WH Allen, 2012.Maajid Nawaz, ‘Maajid's Story’, MaajidNawaz.com, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016).Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Maajid Nawaz’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). and Rashad Ali‘Rashad Ali’, The Guardian, 2008 (accessed 4 April 2016).‘Posts by Rashad Ali’, ConservativeHome, 2014 (accessed 4 April 2016).Faisal Haque, ‘Who is Rashad Zaman Ali?’, The ‘Islamist’, 26 September 2007 (accessed 4 April 2016).‘Rashad Ali: Terrorism? Well, clamp down on HT!’, ENGAGE website, 3 January 2010 (accessed 4 April 2016). Husain has also worked as a senior fellow at American think tank the Council on Foreign Relations,‘Experts: Ed Husain’, Council on Foreign Relations website, 18 January 2012 (accessed 4 April 2016).Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Council on Foreign Relations’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). and as an advisor for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.‘Contributor: Ed Husain’, Tony Blair Faith Foundation website, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016).
*Gilles Kepel: A French political scientist specialising in the contemporary Islamic and Arab world, Kepel popularised the term ‘Londonistan’ in European news media post-2001.Paul Vernon Angus Stott, British Jihadism: The Details and the Denial (doctoral thesis), School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia, 30 April 2015 (accessed 10 April 2016), p162. Whilst Lambert drew particular attention to Keppel in his Strathclyde talks, in his written work he has only made passing reference to him.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014), pp46 & 84.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (second edition) (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 11 June 2014), pp48 & 87.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘The fiery birth of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy: England's Summer of Discontent, ten years on’, openSecurity website, 3 June 2011 (accessed 21 November 2014).
*Douglas Murray: Previously the founder-director of right-wing think tank the Centre for Social Cohesion (2007-2011),Tom Mills, Tom Griffin & David Miller, The Cold War On British Muslims: An Examination Of Policy Exchange And The Centre For Social Cohesion, Spinwatch (sponsored by the Cordoba Foundation), September 2011 (accessed 4 March 2016), pp5-8.Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Centre for Social Cohesion’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016). Murray has been associate director at the similarly right-wing Henry Jackson Society since April 2011.‘Douglas Murray - Associate Director’, Henry Jackson Society website, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016).Signatories to the Henry Jackson Society's ‘Statement of Principles’ includes numerous former and current politicians - most notably Michael Gove - as well as smaller numbers of former military officers (Tim Collins, John Drewienkiewicz, Jonathan Gray), journalists (Tom Gross, Stephen Pollard, Irwin Stelzer) and academics (Vernon Bogdanor, Andrew Lever), as well as businessmen and ex-senior civil servants. See: ‘Signatories to the Statement of Principles’, Henry Jackson Society website, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016). A self-declared neoconservative, his writing has been published in publications such as The Spectator, Standpoint, the Sunday Times and the Wall Street Journal.‘Douglas Murray - Associate Director’, Henry Jackson Society website, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016). As with Gilles Kepel, Murray has not been directly cited in his written work to any significant degree by Lambert.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014), p56.Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (second edition) (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 11 June 2014), p58.
*Melanie Phillips: A right-wing journalist and columnist,Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Melanie Phillips’, Wikipedia.org, 2016 (19 March 2016). Phillips was an early public critic of Lambert and his community engagement model of deradicalisation and work with Salafis and Islamists, as well as being a critic of Islam in general. Her book Londonistan (originally published in 2006) posited that Britain had become a staging post for Islamist terrorists due to political and policing policies over time. By the time of the revised eleventh edition in 2008, a new foreword included a direct attack on Lambert and his Muslim Contact Unit, in particular for his claim that one of his MCU officers was a Salafi.Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: How Britain Has Created A Terror State Within, Gibson Square, 2008 (eleventh revised edition), p.xi. The foreword - including the attack on and rank attributed to Lambert - essentially reworked a July 2008 column for the Daily Mail.Melanie Phillips, ‘This country to so pro-Muslim it is giving succour to the extremists who would destroy us’, Daily Mail, 8 July 2008 (accessed 21 November 2014). Phillips returned to the theme of ‘Commander’ Lambert giving jobs to Salafi police officers and working with non-‘moderate’ Muslims in an article for The Spectator later that year, in which she pithily summarised the Lambertist approach: “Islamist extremism is the antidote to Islamist terrorism – that the Muslim Brotherhood are useful allies against al Qaeda”.Melanie Phillips, ‘Lunacy at Scotland Yard’, Family Security Matters website, 16 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015).
:Lambert has repeatedly referred to Phillips and her criticism of him, the MCU and of community engagement with Islamists in general. His first notable reference to her came in his (pre-exposure) interview with fellow academic Richard Jackson for Critical Studies in Terrorismin which he suggests that in the reasoning of such commentators “Islamists and Salafis are wrongly conflated with the al-Qaida”.Richard Jackson, ‘Counter-terrorism and communities: an interview with Robert Lambert’, Critical Studies on Terrorism volume 1 number 2, August 2008 (accessed 16 June 2014). Her book and two articles (including the Spectator one noted above) are later cited in both the London Case StudyDr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert MBE, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 16 April 2014). and UK Case StudiesRobert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (second edition) (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 11 June 2014). reports produced by him with Jonathan Githens-Mazer at the European Muslim Research Centre, as well as in his book Countering Al Qaeda In London.Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, Hurst & Company, 2011, pp.116, 227, 284-5, 314(n), 317(n), 323(n) & 352(n).In 2010 Lambert robustly attacked Phillips' ‘Londonistan’ claims in an article for the Cordoba Foundation's journal Arches,Robert Lambert, ‘British Muslim Organisations: The Target of an Orchestrated Neocon Campaign of Denigration’. Arches Quarterly Volume 4 Issue 7, pp128-142, Winter 2010. whilst the following year in an article for Al Jazeera (subsequently republished elsewhere) he also made passing reference to Phillips as one of a clique of journalists (“such as [Andrew] Gilligan, Melanie Phillips, Martin Bright.... sorry I won't go on, it's a long list!”) whose “never ending barrage of denigration” undercuts the “outstanding bravery and good citizenship” of the Muslims with whom he worked in Brixton.Dr Bob Lambert, ‘Muslims tackle looters and bigots’, Cordoba Foundation website, 12 August 2011 (accessed 21 November 2014).Dr Bob Lambert, ‘Muslims tackle looters and bigots’, Al Jazeera website, 12 August 2011 (accessed 7 October 2015).Dr Robert Lambert, ‘Muslims Tackle Looters and Bigots’, Huffington Post UK website, 14 August 2011 (updated 14 October 2011) (accessed 5 January 2016). By Lambert's own account at his Chatham House talk in 2011, it was reading Phillips' book Londonistan (and that by Michael Gove, Celsius 7/7) which “spurred [him] into action” towards the end of his policing career and inspired him to move fully into academic life.Dr Bob Lambert, ‘Partnering with the Muslim Community as an Effective Counter-Terrorist Strategy’, transcript of Chatham House talk on 20 September 2011 (accessed 9 February 2016).Olivia Williams, ‘Robert Lambert: 'We Should Work More Closely With Muslims To Combat Al Qaeda'’, Huffington Post UK website, 22 September 2011 (accessed 8 February 2016).
:While the London Case Study does not explicitly mention newspapers or colunmists by name, it does reference Londonistan by Phillip as placing a part in triggering hate crimes. This criticism was picked up by several newspapers. Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Dr Robert Lambert MBE, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: A London Case Study (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 16 April 2014). Vikram Dodd, ‘Media and politicians 'fuel rise in hate crimes against Muslims'’, The Guardian, 28 January 2010 (accessed 27 April 2015).David Sapsted, ‘Media and politicians blamed for hate crimes’, The National, 1 February 2010 (accessed 5 January 2016).
:By November 2010 Lambert commented over Phillips' libel defeat at the hands of Mohammed Sawalha (of the British Muslim Initiative), whom she defamed with a 2008 blog post hosted by The Spectator magazine.5RB, ‘Melanie Phillips apologises for libel’, 5RB.com, 25 November 2010 (accessed 19 March 2016).MacGuffin, ‘Melanie Phillips takes over two years to admit she got something wrong’, Tabloid Watch blog, 25 November 2010 (accessed 19 March 2016).Josh Halliday, ‘The Spectator apologises for falsely accusing Muslim of antisemitism’, The Guardian, 25 November 2010 (accessed 21 March 2016). Lambert noted “she claimed that Mohammad Sawalha had referred to Jews in Britain as "evil/noxious". Over two years later and after much prevarication the Spectator and its star columnist have agreed to apologise and to pay substantial damages and costs.”Dr Robert Lambert, ‘Mohammed Sawalha: a maligned and vindicated British-Palestinian citizen’, MEMO website, 25 November 2010 (accessed via Archive.org 21 March 2016).Melanie Phillips, ‘My blog's new home’, MelaniePhillips.com, 15 June 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Mehdi Hasan, ‘Goodbye, Melanie! Mehdi Hasan on the Spectator's departing blogger’, New Statesman, 24 June 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016).Roy Greenslade, ‘Why Melanie Phillips quit The Spectator’, The Guardian, 28 June 2011 (accessed 21 March 2016). And in his 2011 interview with Lambert for New Humanist magazine (conducted shortly before Lambert's exposure, but published after it) Paul Sims quoted as exemplars of such antipathy: Phillips about his work ('lunacy'), Andrew Gilligan calling him “one of Britain’s most important fellow travellers of Islamism”. and the blog Harry's Place accusing him of leaving a “legacy of shame at the Met”.Paul Sims, ‘Crossing the line?’, New Humanist, 4 November 2011 (accessed 3 February 2015).
===‘Euston Manifesto’ ===
Critics from a different corner are some of the people associated with the ‘Euston Manifesto’ - traditionally Labour or left/liberal types who in 2006 stood behind a declaration calling for “the reconfiguration of progressive opinion that...involves drawing a line between forces on the Left that remain true to its authentic values, and currents that have lately shown themselves rather too flexible about these values.”Norman Geras, Damian Counsell, Alan Johnson & Shalom Lappin, ‘The Euston Manifesto’, The Euston Manifesto website, 2006 (accessed 2 April 2016).Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Euston Manifesto’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016). The Manifesto was in part characterised as a realignment of Labour and left/liberal elements to provide backing for the Iraq war, support for Israel and disassociation from pro-Arab or Islamist currents.Dr Bob Lambert & Professor Rosemary Hollis, ‘Partnering with the Muslim Community as an Effective Counter-Terrorist Strategy’, transcript of Chatham House discussion on 20 September 2011 (accessed 17 April 2014).Source: CAVALCANTI, ‘Notes on Bob Lambert at ‘9/11 Ten Years On’ conference 8-11 September 2011’, University of Strathclyde, private document, September 2011.David Miller, ‘'Terrorism studies' and the war on dissent’, Spinwatch website, 6 November 2006 (accessed 22 March 2016).
===Critical think tanks===
Some of the most vociferous criticism of Lambert before his exposure (and to some degree subsequent to it) has emanated from the partisan policy institutes attempting to set the agenda in relation to engagement (or otherwise) with Islamism. Such think tanks can generally be characterised as of the political or economic right, neoconservative or neoliberal in outlook.
*Centre for Social Cohesion: A right-wing think tank, the Centre for Social Cohesion was founded in 2007 by Douglas Murray, who served as its first director, initially as a unit within Civitas, and then as a separately incorporated entity from January 2008 onwards.‘THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL COHESION’, Companies House website, (accessed 10 April 2016).Tom Mills, Tom Griffin & David Miller, The Cold War On British Muslims: An Examination Of Policy Exchange And The Centre For Social Cohesion, Spinwatch (sponsored by the Cordoba Foundation), September 2011 (accessed 4 March 2016), pp5-8.Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Centre for Social Cohesion’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016). In 2011 the CSE was merged into the Henry Jackson Society and its staff, including Murray, transferred over to HJS.‘The Centre for Social Cohesion joins with The Henry Jackson Society’, Centre for Social Cohesion website, 8 April 2011 (accessed via Archive.org, 10 April 2016). The discrete legal entity CSC was formally wound up in 2013.‘THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL COHESION’, Companies House website, (accessed 10 April 2016).
*Henry Jackson Society: Established in March 2005 as a “policy-shaping force that fights for the principles and alliances which keep societies free”,‘About the Society’, Henry Jackson Society website, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016).Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Henry Jackson Society’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016). (though not incorporated until 2010),‘THE HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY’, Companies House website, (accessed 10 April 2016). the HJS has been perceived - despite being at its heart a right-wing think tank - as partially aligned with the more social democrat/liberal-oriented ‘Euston Manifesto’ group.Henry Jackson Society, ‘The Euston Mono-festo?’, Henry Jackson Society website, 4 June 2006 (accessed 10 April 2016).Henry Jackson Society, ‘Where Next For The Euston Manifesto?’, Henry Jackson Society website, 9 June 2006 (accessed 10 April 2016).Tom Griffin, ‘The Euston Manifesto: made in the USA?’, Spinwatch website, 13 June 2008 (accessed 10 April 2016). Signatories to the Society's ‘Statement of Principles’ include numerous former and current politicians, most notably Michael Gove. Others signed up include smaller numbers of former military officers (Tim Collins, John Drewienkiewicz, Jonathan Gray), journalists (Tom Gross, Stephen Pollard, Irwin Stelzer) and academics (Vernon Bogdanor, Andrew Lever), as well as businessmen and ex-senior civil servants.‘Signatories to the Statement of Principles’, Henry Jackson Society website, 2016 (accessed 10 April 2016). In April 2011 it absorbed the resources of and personnel from Douglas Murray's Centre for Social Cohesion.‘The Centre for Social Cohesion joins with The Henry Jackson Society’, Centre for Social Cohesion website, 8 April 2011 (accessed via Archive.org, 10 April 2016).
*Policy Exchange: Policy Exchange is a right-wing think tank which defines itself as “an educational charity [whose] mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which deliver better public services, a stronger society and a more dynamic economy.”‘Preventing Terrorism: where next for Britain?’, Policy Exchange website, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). (In the past it has described itself as “an independent think tank whose mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which will foster a free society based on strong communities, personal freedom, limited government, national self-confidence and an enterprise culture.”Paul Buchanan, Andrew Gilligan, Zac Goldsmith, Cynthia Grant, Steve Norris and Neil O'Brien, At A Rate Of Knots: Improving public transport on the River Thames, Policy Exchange, 2009 (accessed 4 April 2016). Its trustees include (or have included) David Frum (a journalist and speechwriter for George W Bush), Charles Moore (former editor of the Telegraph papers and The Spectator magazine), US financier Robert Rosenkranz, Conservative blogger Iain Dale and Tory communications guru Rachel Whetstone,‘Trustees’, Policy Exchange website, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016).Paul Buchanan, Andrew Gilligan, Zac Goldsmith, Cynthia Grant, Steve Norris and Neil O'Brien, At A Rate Of Knots: Improving public transport on the River Thames, Policy Exchange, 2009 (accessed 4 April 2016). whilst Michael Gove MP was its first chairman. When he published his book on Islamism Celsius 7/7 in 2006, Policy Exchange hosted a launch event for it, at which he was interviewed about it by journalist Nick Cohen (a fellow critic of Islamist engagement).Tom Mills, Tom Griffin & David Miller, The Cold War On British Muslims: An Examination Of Policy Exchange And The Centre For Social Cohesion, Spinwatch (sponsored by the Cordoba Foundation), September 2011 (accessed 4 March 2016), p6.‘Celsius 7/7’, Policy Exchange website, 22 July 2006 (accessed 4 April 2016).
:Key reports published by Policy Exchange include Martin Bright's When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British state's flirtation with radical Islamism,Martin Bright, When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries: The British state's flirtation with radical Islamism, Policy Exchange, July 2006 (accessed 17 April 2014). Denis MacEoin's The Hijacking of British Islam,Denis MacEoin, The Hijacking of British Islam, Policy Exchange, 2007 (accessed via Scribd 2 April 2016). and Choosing Our Friends Wisely: Criteria for engagement with Muslim groups by Shiraz Maher and Martyn Frampton.Shiraz Maher & Martyn Frampton, Choosing Our Friends Wisely: Criteria for engagement with Muslim groups, Policy Exchange, 2009 (accessed 4 April 2016).
*Quilliam Foundation: Describing itself as “the world’s first counter-extremism think tank” and standing for “religious freedom, equality, human rights and democracy”,‘About Us’, Quilliam Foundation website, 2016 (accessed 4 April 2016). the Quilliam Foundation was set up in 2007 by former Hizb ut Tahrir activists Maajid Nawaz, Ed Husain and Rashad Ali.‘Advisors’, Quilliam Foundation website, 20 April 2008 (accessed via Archive.org 4 April 2016). Until 2011 funding for the foundation came largely from government sources, with £700,000 paid through Prevent by October 2009,Vikram Dodd, ‘Spying morally right, says thinktank’, The Guardian, 16 October 2009 (accessed 4 April 2016). and around a million pounds by August 2010,Vikram Dodd, ‘List sent to terror chief aligns peaceful Muslim groups with terrorist ideology’, The Guardian, 4 August 2010 (accessed 9 March 2015). though Quilliam states that after these streams dried up it “has been independent of public funds ever since.”‘Setting the Record Straight’ (public statement), Quilliam Foundation, 2015 (accessed 4 April 2016).
:In 2010 a Quilliam ‘strategic briefing paper’ for Charles Farr, who headed up the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT) within the Home Office - Preventing Terrorism: where next for Britain? - was leaked.Maajid Nawaz & Ed Husain, ‘Letter to Charles Farr, Director General OSCT’, Quilliam Foundation, 14 June 2010 (accessed 4 April 2016).Preventing Terrorism: where next for Britain?, Quilliam Foundation, 2010 (accessed 2 April 2016).Vikram Dodd, ‘List sent to terror chief aligns peaceful Muslim groups with terrorist ideology’, The Guardian, 4 August 2010 (accessed 9 March 2015). In the document the Quilliam authors (presumably Nawaz and Husain) draw up a long list of organisations they accuse of proving the “extremist mood music” which “draws British citizens into radicalisation”. Of the thirty-nine specifically mentioned, Lambert has been connected to seventeen of them.These are: Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Association of Britain, Cordoba Foundation, North London Central (Finsbury Park) Mosque, Muslim Welfare House, British Muslim Initiative, Islamic Forum of Europe, Muslim Safety Forum, East London Mosque, London Muslim Centre, iEngage, Islam Channel, Islamic Human Rights Commission, STREET, Siraat, Ibn Taymiyyah (Brixton) Mosque and London Central (Regents Park) Mosque.
:Quilliam and Lambert (and those aligned with Lambert) have long sparred over their differing views on Islamism, and on government approaches to counter-terrorism and anti-radicalisation methods, with Quilliam broadly in support of the Prevent programme,Jonathan Russell & Alex Theodosiou, Counter-Extremism: a Decade on from 7/7, Quilliam Foundation, July 2015 (accessed 7 October 2015).Anna Hart Dyke, Mosques Made in Britain, Quilliam Foundation, February 2009 (accessed 16 April 2014). and Lambert critical of it.Jonathan Githens-Mazer & Robert Lambert, ‘Quilliam on Prevent: the wrong diagnosis’, The Guardian, 19 October 2009 (accessed 22 November 2014).Robert Lambert, Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and Muslims in Partnership, Hurst & Company, 2011.Robert Lambert, The London Partnerships: an insider's analysis of legitimacy and effectiveness, Department of Politics (European Muslim Research Centre), University of Exeter, 2010 (accessed 18 February 2015).Paul Thomas, Failing to Prevent? Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism, Bloomsbury Academic, 2012 (accessed 5 January 2016).
===Critical blogs===
Before his exposure in 2011 as an undercover officer, whilst with the Muslim Contact Unit and then later as an academic, Lambert was subject to criticism from several blogs, notably from the right wing and the milieu around the Euston Manifesto.For the sake of brevity, we do not include the large number of sites critiquing Lambert subsequent to his exposure, encompassing a wider political spectrum. Similarly we do not tackle the explicitly racist far right ‘anti-Islamification’ or ‘Eurabian’ websites covering this topic.
*Harry's Place: A joint blog characterised by its typically social democrat/liberal authors' Euston Manifesto-style pro-Iraq War/anti-Islamist leanings,Various authors, Harry's Place website (front page), 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016).Various Wikipedia contributors, ‘Harry's Place’, Wikipedia, 2016 (accessed 2 April 2016). Harry's Place has long criticised Bob Lambert, both as a police officer and as an academic.habibi, ‘Mohamed Ali Harrath: CEO of Islam Channel, Anti-Semite, and Convicted Terrorist’, Harry's Place website, 12 December 2008 (accessed 4 May 2015).Lucy Lips, ‘Bob Lambert: Just Fancy That!’, Harry's Place website, 28 October 2009 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘The Muslim Council of Britain, Bob Lambert, and the Moonies’, Harry's Place website, 1 July 2010 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Dr Ahmad Al-Dubayan and the EMRC’, Harry's Place website, 1 August 2011 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘On “The Wrath of Plod”’, Harry's Place website, 6 October 2011 (accessed 1 February 2015).Lucy Lips, ‘Bob Lambert Unmasked As Police Spy’, Harry's Place website, 17 October 2011 (accessed 8 January 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Do You Trust Bob Lambert?’, Harry's Place website, 21 October 2011 (21 March 2016).LooseStool, ‘An Old Friend of Bob Lambert Speaks…’, Harry's Place website, 21 October 2011 (accessed 4 December 2015).Lucy Lips, ‘As More Revelations About Lambert Surface, Spinwatch Rides to his Defence’, Harry's Place website, 24 October 2011 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘“Unforseen circumstances”’, Harry's Place website, 29 October 2011 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Bob Lambert: How Low Did He Go?’, Harry's Place website, 21 January 2012 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Bob Lambert: A Man With No Shame’, Harry's Place website, 11 March 2012 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Ken Livingstone Visits Hamas Mosque, Declares “I will make London a beacon of Islam”’, Harry's Place website, 19 March 2012 (accessed 8 January 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘Bob Lambert: Pamphleteer’, Harry's Place website, 21 June 2013 (21 March 2016).Lucy Lips, ‘The Finsbury Park Mosque and Abdullah Djaballah’, Harry's Place website, 30 January 2014 (accessed 8 January 2016).
*Trial By Jeory: Covering Lambert from the perspective of municipal reporting rather than the more partisan approach of Harry's Place and others, Tower Hamlets-based journalist and blogger Ted Jeory drew attention to serious errors of fact in the European Muslim Research Centre's Islamophobia And Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies report, which was edited by Lambert and Jonathan Githens-Mazer,Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (first edition) (research project) European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, November 2010 (accessed via counterextremism.org 11 June 2014). within three days of it being published in November 2010.Ted Jeory, ‘Another dodgy dossier’, Trial by Jeory blog, 30 November 2010 (17 March 2016). The University of Exeter “unreservedly apologised”, distribution of the original version was “curtailed”, and a revised editionRobert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies 2010 - An introduction to a ten year Europe-wide research project (second edition) (research project), European Muslim Research Centre/University of Exeter, January 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 11 June 2014). (minus the offending, possibly libelous, chapter in question) issued the following February.Ted Jeory, ‘Islamophobia report: Exeter Uni apologises’, Trial by Jeory blog, 15 March 2011 (17 March 2016).Robert Lambert & Jonathan Githens-Mazer, ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: UK Case Studies’, University of Exeter website, 21 February 2011 (accessed via Archive.org 17 March 2016).
==Further Undercover Research resources on Bob Lambert==
* Bob Lambert
* Bob Lambert as Bob Robinson 
* Bob Lambert Exposure and Post-Exposure 
* Bob Lambert Career Timeline 
* Bob Lambert and the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
* Bob Lambert Consultancy
* Bob Lambert and the Muslim Community
* Bob Lambert Writing and Speaking
* Bob Lambert Gallery
* Muslim Contact Unit
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