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We visit the strange world of the Gaza encampment at Cambridge.

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Good afternoon. Cambridge has more than 20,000 students. At lunchtime on Thursday, 41 of them were encamped on a patch of lawn along King’s Parade, outside one of its grandest colleges in the centre of town. I went up for the day with George Monaghan, my colleague at the NS, to find out why. I found a microcosm of the neurotic internet brought to l…

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