Will Self

Yes, they did.

I was living off the Portobello Road and I remember getting up in the morning and checking my kit for the day, my notebook, my tape recorder and my drugs.

And I had...

uh i had a heroin habit at the time so i had some heroin and i had some cocaine and i thought well i've got to get down to smith square i don't want to be too stoned first thing in the morning for the press conference i'll take quite a bit of cocaine so i took quite a lot of cocaine a little bit of heroin just to keep me on the level then we go on the buses and went out to raf north halt and and

You know, I'd been a working journalist, really, but I wasn't a lobby journalist.

But I was very well known by that point.

It was the 96th election.

I was very well known already, nationally known person.

So when I got on the bus, everybody went, here he is, there he is.

John Sapel, I was at school with, a senior BBC correspondent,

Hello, Will.

And I think that's what aroused the ire of another hack who was working on the Express called Simon Waters.

Oh, he snitched on you.

And he snitched on me.

And what he did was he didn't even... So the whole day went off without...

Hang on.

I'm a working journalist.

I'm actually very good at my job.

I've never missed a deadline.

You weren't inviting John Major to shoot up with you at the back of the bus.