\'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN\' Greg JennerThis is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we\'ve managed to avoid it.We live in a \'post-truth\' age, we\'re told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn\'t even know what\'s true, and doesn\'t care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don\'t trust experts any more.But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK\'s leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?PRAISE FOR HUMANS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE F*CKED IT ALL UP:\'F*cking brilliant\' Sarah Knight, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck\'Very funny\' Mark Watson\'In dark times, it\'s reassuring to learn that we\'ve always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits\' Stuart Heritage, Don\'t Be a Dick, Pete\'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining\' Telegraph