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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  Canada to hit defence spending target ‘half a decade ahead of schedule’, PM says

  Canada has set out plans to increase defence spending quicker than expected, with prime minister Mark Carney outlining plans to upgrade what he called the country’s aged military equipment and

  • Posted June 12, 2025
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  United Arab Emirates launches training programme for chief AI officers

  Chief artificial intelligence officers across federal government agencies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to receive two weeks of AI training to strengthen the country’s hand in the future

  • Posted June 9, 2025
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  Trusting the process, trusting the product: how governments can win over the public on AI

  Trust in artificial intelligence (AI) may not have been the main issue on which Canada’s federal election was fought earlier this year, but its one that looms as large there

  • Posted May 26, 2025
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  UK government’s AI system ‘Humphrey’ set to review thousands of public consultations to improve civil service efficiency

  The UK government has launched its own artificial intelligence system to review thousands of public consultations. The multi-tool suite ‘Humphrey’ was named after a fictional bureaucrat written into the 1980’s

  • Posted May 22, 2025
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  UK prime minister pledges ‘defence dividend’ from highest spend since Cold War 

  Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK government will cultivate what he called a nationwide “defence dividend” that will boost job creation and opportunity as a result of the country’s

  • Posted May 21, 2025
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  UK peers urge tighter AI regulation for transparent and safe adoption in government

  A UK peer who has proposed new legislation to regulate the use of artificial intelligence has said that human-centred design and management needs to be placed at the heart of

  • Posted May 14, 2025
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  UK government to hire chief AI officer

  The UK civil service is looking to hire a government chief AI officer for the first time, in a move that builds on a trend to embed the role in

  • Posted May 7, 2025
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  Estonia exceeds Trump’s defence spending target with 5.4% GDP pledge

  The Estonian government has approved a defence investment programme that is expected to raise its annual defence budget to an average of 5.4% of GDP from 2026 to 2029. The

  • Posted May 1, 2025
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  UK government develops AI tool to help meet housebuilding target  

  The UK government’s Incubator for AI (i.AI) is working with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Digital Planning Programme to develop an artificial intelligence tool to help councils make better

  • Posted April 24, 2025
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  UK ministry creates new directorate for AI and analytics

  A new directorate tasked with identifying the best ways to scale AI in local government services has been set up by the UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

  • Posted April 17, 2025
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