** wanky liberal reflections of the month - with teenage pregnancy rates approaching 10% for under-18s in her council of lambeth, myerson feels she has to discuss her own fake pregnancy when she was a young bourgeois at university

"I gathered all the watercolours of flowers I had ever painted, put them in a wicker basket and set off to sell them. I trawled around every craft shop in Bristol. I had to find a way of keeping us - the baby and me, that is."

** Academics 'harming' efforts to combat terrorism - In his paper, published in today's Times Higher Education Supplement, Professor Glees - who is director of the centre for intelligence and security studies at Brunel - says: "There is still a marked suspicion of professional security activities, even in the defence of liberal democracy... Some senior members of Britain's diplomatic community and more than a few members of Britain's academic community believe that security and intelligence services do not provide the answer to the problem but are, in fact, its cause."

Academics are mainly "hostile to the idea of intervention in international affairs and have, since 1980, harboured strong suspicions of American motives".

Professor Glees will also claim that political correctness makes it difficult for academics to attack Islamic fundamentalism or oppose student societies that demand the destruction of western society, if they wish to do so.

** Bai-bai "election": Media tycoon predicts Bush "to walk" into second term
"They're [who?] with him on that, completely. He's going to walk [the election]. The economy's doing extremely well [?] and there is an international crisis. You've got to understand, America was attacked. 9/11 changed America - it was a big moment in history."

All of Mr Murdoch's newspapers supported the war, which he believed was the only way of ridding the Middle East of Saddam Hussein.