Rowan Pelling

@horton_official Crikey.

@RowanPelling Somehow even more glam

Looking after my very glamorous friend for a few days as she recovers from a heart operation. Looked in her fridge to discover all that’s in it is Bollinger, smoked salmon and Chanel nail polish 💅

@notestomyboy That's wonderful, I'm delighted for you both. One of my boys was out of school for some time and didn't sit GCSEs. Six years later, he's about to graduate from uni with great grades. Butterflies emerge from chrysalides.

My Son has been into School today and sat his GCSE English exam. He wore his high school uniform for the first time and sat in a hall with about 100 other kids. The strength and bravery that must’ve taken has me in awe. He’s not done a day in school since Feb 2020 and some of his primary school friends were in the room. He’s done some online tutoring 3 times a week for 6 months but before that did no formal education action for over 5 years. What a boy, love you mate ❤️

Anyone near Althorp this weekend? I'm at the @AlthorpLitFest where I'll be in conversation with @AnnaWhitelock on her history of James I, The Sun Rising, @annesebba discussing The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, the BBC's Frank Gardner taking thrillers, William Sieghart dispensing wisdom from his Poetry Pharmacy, and Keeley Hazell on her memoir Everyone's Seen My Tits. Something for everyone.

@horton_official you might like this?

Do you know about zombie ant fungus and mind-controlled ants? Do you want to see a radical new performance blending neuroscience, mycology, sound and behaviour. My brilliant friend Bridget Nicholls, founder of Pestival, conservationist and sage of all things insect and bat related, has produced the world's first science-musical-insect-fungi extravaganza. It's at the Royal Institute this Sat/Sun. Brilliant panels afterwards. I'm going. Book here rigb.org/whats-on/zombi…

@ClementiaFanda1 @Telegraph But impatience is definitely my vice.

@Telegraph @RowanPelling I remember being out with my kids once a we needed to stop to cross the road, and some tw4t exclaimed “Why do people suddenly STOP!”. Perhaps they’re not going the same way as you?🙄 I despise these people who think they’re the centre of the universe 😠

✍️ 'Can’t we speed-walkers have our own campaign to instil basic pedestrian etiquette in our metropolises?' I Writes Rowan Pelling Read @RowanPelling's full article below 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/0…

@ClementiaFanda1 @Telegraph In that instance, the tw4t behind you was definitely not obeying correct pedestrian etiquette. I'm not talking about that kind of thing. I'm talking about people on busy streets, shop entrances, exits and tube platforms who have zero sense of anyone else around them.

@TbwcoF @Telegraph Spare the rod and spoil the pedestrian?

@Telegraph @RowanPelling Can we just flog them for being on the wrong side of the parth.

@Angelofcustard Thanks for that David.

@RowanPelling Thanks for the reply. I completely understand.

Fiercely battling on behalf of the sacred right to have a small tipple during a very long working day. But then I am a hack...

@alexlarman @TheSpectator One of my favourite writers too. Never disappoints.

I commissioned this brilliant piece for the latest edition of @TheSpectator - Roger Lewis, one of my favourite writers, on Liza Minnelli. spectator.com/article/life-c…

@StuartRoss64 Seems perfectly reasonable.

@RowanPelling I’d just widen it to include anyone and everyone who gets in my way everywhere…

I wish that the TV series Room 101 could be revived so I could put egregiously slow walkers straight into it, along with people who block the fast lane on escalators. I really vented while writing this one. #comment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/0…

@sillynotabsurd @Telegraph Judging from the number of comments, it hit a nerve and/or made people laugh (although a few despaired like you, it's true). Perhaps it a GSOH thing?

@TheMajor_37 Marvellous. I'm with you all the way, Tim.

@RowanPelling I agree, my wife gets embarrassed when I ask dawdlers, loudly, if they can drive better than they walk 😎

@sillynotabsurd @Telegraph Surely there's space in life for pet peeves? You've seen the TV show Room 101?

@Richard23287873 You have to ignore the signs at Kings X and make sure you use the direct entrance and exit to the Victoria Line, which is situated outside the main station, where the news kiosk used to be in the days when people bought actual paper newspapers. I LOVE your suggested battlecry.

@RowanPelling Ah, tube access at King's Cross. I am pretty sure that the routes between lines, and to and from the outer world, have got a lot longer, making the dawdler problem worse. As for remedies, have you tried shouting "Cry God for Rowan, England and St. George!"?

@Angelofcustard Hope this doesn't sound ungracious, I try and keep FB to people I know, or who know a lot of people I know, because I post more personal stuff there. If we bump into each other in a Cambridge pub one day, that policy might well change

@RowanPelling Ive just sent a friend request on fb. Please accept it. Always admired you.

@DavidMcredmond @JohnSimpsonNews I've been neglectful - forgive me.

@RowanPelling @JohnSimpsonNews Will call when next in London dear Rowan. Would love to chat. I’ll buy lunch.

In 1961 my dad bought his first #PrivateEye (the 2nd edition I think) & loved it. Aged 16, I was editor of my school newspaper. A week later I interviewed Nick Luard, who funded the Eye. He was brilliant, funny and pleasant. I became a loyal reader too. Still am, 65 years later.

I find it bewildering to dismiss any woman's lived experience of how she experienced an orgasm, once obvious caveats have been ruled out. Quite a few women report peaking through nipple stimulation alone (though I have no idea if you can experience that after a spinal cord injury or FGM).

@RowanPelling @jess_ann_pin That was also my understanding. And I also tested it and was able to orgasm purely from a spot stimulation. She didn't think my experiment was valid 🤣. I must have bumped my clitoris or imagined I had an orgasm... It's all in our heads

False. Orgasm is a reflex. Men with SCIs above S2-S4 also have an intact orgasm reflex. Why is it that none of the research on orgasm in men with complete SCIs is used to argue that men can orgasm without their penises? The orgasms in women with SCIs are still clitoral and induced by clitoral stimulation. All this study showed was the ability of an experience of orgasm to be sent to the brain via the vagus nerve. Komisurek was either intellectually dishonest or stupid. He is a PSYCHOLOGIST. He seems to be extremely ignorant about how reflexes work and he had clearly motivated reasoning. 😂 He studied 5 women with SCIs, who he selected for their alleged ability to orgasm. He found 3 could orgasm based on fMRI. One had an incomplete SCI (so some signals still get through spinal cord). That leaves only 2 women who could experience orgasm via vagus. That does NOT mean orgasm was triggered by vagus. That is impossible.