jonathan trigell

“The shark's just a shark, right? No one calls it Jaws. It doesn't call itself Jaws. The film is called Jaws, the…

— jonathan trigell

Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning…

— Jonathan Trigell

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can…

— Jonathan Trigell

I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up…

— Jonathan Trigell

Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic…

— Jonathan Trigell

You are supposed to look at the unimproved and think about the way that we dismiss so-called 'chavs' and certain immigrant classes…

— Jonathan Trigell

At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is…

— Jonathan Trigell

I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of…

— Jonathan Trigell

There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We…

— Jonathan Trigell

I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first…

— Jonathan Trigell

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my…

— Jonathan Trigell

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and…

— Jonathan Trigell

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable,…

— Jonathan Trigell

I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep…

— Jonathan Trigell

Living in France means I see the UK in snapshots. There is something quite nice about being in exile and the things…

— Jonathan Trigell

We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you…

— Jonathan Trigell

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave…

— Jonathan Trigell