Barbers begone! Why men are embracing the long, luscious hair of lockdown

The weather forecaster Tomasz Schafernaker has caused a stir with his tousled look - but experts say pandemic mops are here to stay

Name: Lockdown hair.

Age: One and a bit.

Appearance: Shaggy.

You seem to have failed to realise that hairdressers are open in England, Wales and Scotland. I've managed to get an appointment next week. We chaps can go back to military-style buzzcuts. Hey, get with it, man.

I'm sorry? You evidently didn't get the memo. Lockdown hair is here to stay. Ask Tomasz Schafernaker.

Who? Tomasz Schafernaker. The BBC's rebel" weather forecaster.

Surely a rebel weather forecaster" is a contradiction in terms. Not at all. He's young, wacky, arty and, most important of all, he's refusing to cut his hair! He's decided the wild look is good, whatever viewers think.

How absurd. Sack him. We want well-groomed weather people. You're not the emeritus weatherman Bill Giles, are you? He takes the same view, arguing that audiences won't trust a weatherman whose fringe is obscuring his eyes.

Well said. What is the world coming to? One viewer described Schafernaker's unkempt look as a cross between a member of Abba and a 1970s porn star". But he's vowed to keep it. It'll need a little styling, but that's it," he says. My choice."