A certain class of dishonesty

Is humanity doomed? Doomsday Clock will be updated tomorrow to determine our fate

Is humanity doomed? We're about to find out – as scientists prepare to update the Doomsday Clock tomorrow.

The new time for the symbolic timepiece, which ticks closer to midnight as we approach annihilation, will be revealed at 15:00 GMT on 27 January.

Since last year, the clock has sat at 89 seconds to midnight – the latest time in its 78–year history.

However, ahead of tomorrow's grand reveal, experts have predicted the Doomsday Clock will move even closer to midnight.


A certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable.

Anthony Trollope - The Way We Live Now (1875)