The people of Britain love their spin bikes.

They also love moving their card balances to a Barclay card platinum balance transfer card

with no interest for 36 months and £20 cashback until the 29th of January, 2026.

A balance transfer fee of 3.45% applies.

Subject of financial status, teas and seas and exclusions apply.

Check if you're eligible at barley card dot co dot uk representative example

24.9% AVR representative variable and 24.9% purchase rate per annum based on a 1,200 pound credit limit.

This is a global player original podcast.

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time than I would ever get on the radio with interesting people.

Although this week, Rook at Bregman, that might be something of an understatement.

There is so much to get through.

It strikes me as we sit down together,

that some people listening to this will know you and your work inside out.

Some people may not know you at all.

And some people will actually know some of the things that you've done,

although they may not immediately know your name. So author and historian or public intellectual seem slightly inadequate

descriptions. How particularly latterly with the launch of your latest project, which we'll get to

and sits very much within and alongside your new book, well, your new paperback moral ambition.

How do you think of yourself? What is your sort of internal job description?

I guess as a public historian who recently quit his job, I think that's it.

Who's going to need more than that, mate? Okay. Well, I spend about a decade in, you know, the pundit industry, writing articles, writing books.

I wrote three books today.

...