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1. People may be more vigorously vetted, and complaints taken more seriously, but paedophiles can offend against hundreds before they acquire a criminal record because children are easy to intimidate and ensnare.
2. And we now know that it is an ACPO directive which lies behind the new and tenacious pursuit of those who offend against the dogma of the New Labour state.
3. Progressive integration, so understood, is not assimilation into a "melting pot" that requires the loss of all plural identities, not least because such demands can themselves form barriers to integration and offend against liberal ideas of autonomy.
4. Somewhere between Jesus and Karl Marx he found a common assertion of the equal dignity and worth of every individual, and a common recognition that the powerful in both religion and politics habitually offend against that dignity and worth.
5. This despite the views of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, who said that to make glorification an offence would offend against the requirement of article 10 of the Human Rights Act that restrictions on freedom of expression should be proportionate.