“I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.”

English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster

Will Self is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He is known for his fiction and nonfiction work, and for a career that spans novels, shorter fiction, novellas and essays. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. He is also an honorary Professor at Brunel University London, where his interests include psychogeography.