The Thousands

You know how when you were at school, some Dads were Daggy Dads and some Dads were Cool Dads? The Cool Dads would let their kids throw a party for the whole class WITH alcohol. Daggy Dads wouldn’t let you go to the Big Day Out when you were 14 because, well, there might be drugs there.

If he were your Dad, modern day British thinker A.C. Grayling would definitely be a Cool Dad. A.C. says so long as we’re thinking about stuff, we’re on the right track, regardless of what we decide. Thinking Of Answers brings together short pieces (each four pages max) of Graylings’ published responses to readers questions in The Times, broaching trifles like ‘What is the moral worth of truth?’, and ‘Is friendship the highest form of human relationship?’.

So as long as you were weighing up the benefits of live music at the BDO over the ills of potential substance abuse, Cool Dad A.C. would be proud as punch, and you’d be on your way to the mosh pit.