All posts by Jack Aldane

About Jack Aldane

Jack is a British journalist, cartoonist and podcaster. He graduated from Heythrop College London in 2009 with a BA in philosophy, before living and working in China for three years as a freelance reporter. After training in financial journalism at City University from 2013 to 2014, Jack worked at Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters before moving into editing magazines on global trade and development finance. Shortly after editing opinion writing for UnHerd, he joined the independent think tank ResPublica, where he led a media campaign to change the health and safety requirements around asbestos in UK public buildings. As host and producer of The Booking Club podcast – a conversation series featuring prominent authors and commentators at their favourite restaurants – Jack continues to engage today’s most distinguished thinkers on the biggest problems pertaining to ideology and power in the 21st century. He joined Global Government Forum as its Senior Staff Writer and Community Co-ordinator in 2021.

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  Hong Kong civil service applicants to be quizzed on national security law

  Applicants to civil service jobs in Hong Kong will be required to pass a new test on the city’s mini-constitution and controversial national security law, starting from mid-2022. The national

  • Posted October 21, 2021
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  Science must inform all Whitehall departments, says chief scientific adviser

  The UK government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance has said Whitehall must do more to incorporate science and engineering expertise, and that science should be considered “as important to the

  • Posted October 19, 2021
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  Nigeria to ban unvaccinated civil servants from their offices

  Civil servants in Nigeria will not be allowed into their offices unless they can prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or show a negative test for the disease, the country’s

  • Posted October 15, 2021
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  Friends in NED: why the UK government needs independent non-executive directors

  Growing allegations of cronyism have raised questions about non-executive directors’ influence and put pressure on the UK government to be more transparent about their appointment. Jack Aldane hears from current

  • Posted October 13, 2021
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  UK government plans to set civil service return-to-work deadlines

  The UK Cabinet Office may impose deadlines for civil servants to return to Whitehall after months of tensions over remote working arrangements between ministers and unions. The cabinet secretary, Simon

  • Posted October 12, 2021
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  Canada to put unvaccinated federal workers on unpaid leave

  Civil servants in Canada who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the month will be placed on unpaid leave, the government has announced.   The vaccine

  • Posted October 7, 2021
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  FDA union chief fires back at criticisms of remote-working UK civil servants

  The general secretary of the FDA union Dave Penman has hit back at Conservative party co-chairman Oliver Dowden for criticising civil servants who work from home. Dowden said earlier this

  • Posted October 6, 2021
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  Brazil’s public sector reform bill advances through congress

  A bill that aims to shrink the state by cutting public sector pay and benefits has passed the committee stage in Brazil’s lower chamber of congress. The constitutional amendment –

  • Posted September 27, 2021
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  UK makes bid to become global AI superpower

  The UK has laid out its first strategy for becoming a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) in order to meet increasing competition in the field from around the world.

  • Posted September 23, 2021
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