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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  Australian election heats up as Labor’s pledge to cut public service contractors sparks political ad battle

  Australia’s opposition Labor Party has said it will wean the Australian Public Service (APS) off its use of consultants and contractors and instead hire more public servants if it wins

  • Posted May 18, 2022
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  Canadian public servants report feeling unable to give ‘fearless advice’ to leaders

  Politicised decision-making is denting Canadian public servants’ confidence about giving frank and neutral advice to leaders, while declining trust in government is affecting its ability to overcome important challenges, a

  • Posted May 17, 2022
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  Saving people and planet: creating a fairer world in the move to low-carbon economies

  As governments focus increasingly on the climate crisis, they must ensure that people and communities are at the centre of policy decisions. At a GGF webinar, Jack Aldane heard experts

  • Posted May 16, 2022
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  Pro-Beijing security chief to be Hong Kong’s next leader

  Hong Kong named the city’s former security secretary John Lee its next chief executive earlier this week after his unopposed run for office secured more than 99% of the votes

  • Posted May 12, 2022
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  US launches environmental justice office to protect “overburdened and underserved” communities

  The Biden administration has launched the Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ), a new office within the US justice department that will address the adverse effects of climate change on vulnerable

  • Posted May 9, 2022
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  US federal officials ‘less satisfied at work due to return to the office’

  US federal workers reported a dip in both job engagement and satisfaction according to the results of an annual survey, in what the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has put

  • Posted May 5, 2022
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  ‘The war for talent’: APS assistant commissioner warns of challenges in attracting staff

  Bringing highly-skilled workers into the Australian Public Service (APS) amid a competitive job market and ongoing crises has felt like a “never-ending journey” with difficulties still to come, Patrick Hetherington,

  • Posted April 24, 2022
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  US federal agencies publish first-ever plans to enhance equity and inclusion

  More than 90 departments and agencies have published a combined 300 actions designed to help the US federal government better serve marginalised groups. The strategies, released last week, aim to

  • Posted April 21, 2022
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  Brazilian officials set for pay increase after public service strikes; Australian Electoral Commission’s plan to tackle election misinformation: policy and delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of all the news you need to know but might have missed Brazil government to boost public servant pay by 5% in July The government

  • Posted April 21, 2022
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  Rwandan government launches AI centre to boost technological innovation

  Rwanda has created a centre dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence to help create “faster, more agile approaches” to using the use of emerging technologies by government. The centre

  • Posted April 12, 2022
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