At Google, I'm expecting a spectacle from the technology sector's equivalent of the Green Party

These sorts of events are costly, stressful, crowded – and strangely exhilarating

This week I’m heading down to Google – or at least to a huge building in London that Google has hired out – for the launch of its latest phones.

These big events are the highlights of the technology journalists’ calendar: March belongs to Samsung’s flagship phone, while all of September is given over to the brand new iPhone. As October heralds autumn, it also brings with it Google’s event.

Tuesday will see the launch of the Google Pixel 3 phone, as well as a whole range of other new products. We know that because the company has leaked just about everything about the phones this year, losing control of them so much that some are already on sale on the black market.