England had won the second Ashes Test by 347 runs and lead by 2-0 withreeree Tests to go, the first time they have won the opening two matches of an Ashes series at home.
The repeated refusal of GPs, social housing officers and social security staff to act as immigration officers also means that if more robust residence tests are to be introduced for other EU nationals then an easy and authoritative way is needed of checking how long they have been in the country and what their immigration status is.
Fiddling around with the 16 mid-sized laggards who failed, or marginally passed, the summer stress tests is not enough.
By framing TB and HIV screening within a battery of other healthy living tests, including pregnancy, diabetes and hypertension, people are encouraged to get tested for the diseases.
But even so, after six months of tests to ensure that my body was strong enough to cope with a transplant, it was still a shock to cross that line, to say: "Yes, if I get the chance, I'll swap my lungs for someone else's".
It was on that trip that the 33-year-old demonstrated to the Lions coach, Mark Robinson, he was back to his best, both on and off the field, scoring an unbeaten 211 in Paarl in the first of two unofficial Tests against South Africa.
The all-rounder hurt his knee playing for Chennai Super Kings and was unable to play in the Tests and one-day matches against West Indies.
The London Criminal Justice Partnership sees the approach as a way to head off the belt-and-braces approach sometimes taken in ordering forensic tests by police officers and prosecutors second guessing the defence.
The Lufthansa chief executive, Carsten Spohr, said Lubitz had passed all the psychological tests required for training and undergone regular physical examinations.
Much of it was a "slippery slope" argument: if the Gates Foundation divested from every firm which failed social responsibility tests, soon there'd be almost nothing left to invest in.
Moments into his tests, a detective with 28 years' experience of this sort of work murmured, "I don't think I've ever seen anything like this".
