On the back of the Labubu craze comes the latest fad - a new hairdo called the 'Steel Porcupine', which has received high-level backing from EU President Ursula Von der Leyen who was recently seen sporting the new hairdo on a flight to Bulgaria.

The porcupine is known for adapting a defensive posture that has it bristling with sharp pointed spines, which causes bigger animals to simply pass it by and get on with their business elsewhere leaving the porcupine to wander around aimlessly like the village idiot.

The hairdo is not without its problems.

It is suspected that the hairdo's steel highlights played havoc with the navigation of Von der Leyen's recent flight, jamming the onboard GPS and forcing the pilots to fly using something called a 'map' - a kind of coloured piece of paper that represents the geography of an area and is usually only found in museums.

The result was that the plane flew around in circles for an hour as the pilots tried to understand the points of the compass from the map.

When asked about the war in Ukraine and the role of the coalition of the willing/wilting/waiting/wonkas by a journalist, the President exhibited a typical porcupine defensive reaction including quill erection, teeth clattering and odour emission, which only succeeded in alarming the crew aka Julian and Sandy.