England v New Zealand: third men’s Test, day one – live

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We all like feeling vindicated. It brings a sense of wellbeing, a sense of confidence, a sense of smug.

But when we’re vindicated and others are not, that’s a whole new plain of feeling – especially if those others are our bosses, and those others, our bosses, have first assumed it was they who were right and we who were wrong, then intimated the same to the public, then dished out a consequence having let someone else away with worse, then endured a disastrous week at work to reverse the great work done previously, while taking an unfathomable amount of time to investigate a scandal that was not exactly Enron. Yes, that might be described – but almost definitely wasn’t – as a whole new plain of feeling entirely.