Frustrated by a High Court injunction that prohibits protestors from occupying University buildings in Cambridge so as to block a degree ceremony on 1 March, ‘Palestine Action’ has resorted to violence (for that is what it is) to make its point.

The fifteenth-century gateway to the Old Schools, the administrative headquarters of the University, has been sprayed with red paint, and the slogan ‘Divest’ has been written in red on the adjoining walls.