Simon Jones: Devil in the detail

All being well, by the time you read this, the winners of the Optician Awards 2021 will have been revealed at a glittering ceremony at the Grosvenor Hotel on London’s Park Lane.

If previous events are anything to go by, there will have been elation, disappointment, good times and more than a few hangovers on Friday morning. We’ll have a full list of winners in next week’s issue.

It’s a sign of the times that just two days before the event, we can’t be fully 100% sure that the event is going to take place, especially as Boris Johnson has just scheduled an unexpected press conference for 4pm today (Tuesday 30). Even before the word Omicron entered our daily vocabularies, the coronavirus picture in mainland Europe had become fairly worrying and last week claimed yet another optical trade show with the postponement of Opti Munich until the spring.