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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  OECD warns ‘institutional incoherence’ is undermining members’ digital ambitions

  Report identifies five challenges to digital transformation and a “common thread” of a lack of join up across individual initiatives, policy instruments and digital components The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in

  • Posted June 18, 2026
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  Unlocking potential: how the Government of Canada is working to optimise its data assets

  Governments around the world are struggling to make the most of their data. During a Global Government Forum webinar, Canadian public service leaders discussed the importance of data mapping, stewardship,

  • Posted June 18, 2026
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  US forces Anthropic to shut down latest AI models, citing national security concerns

  AI company Anthropic has disabled access to its latest Mythos and Fable models at the order of the Trump administration, which said it feared they could be deployed to intelligence

  • Posted June 16, 2026
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  European Commission tables tech sovereignty package for AI, cloud and opensource

  The European Commission has presented a raft of measures to strengthen the EU’s ability to produce semiconductors, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and opensource technologies. The batch of measures, the European

  • Posted June 9, 2026
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  Checks and balances: how to deploy responsible AI in government

  Key to governments using artificial intelligence effectively is designing and implementing the appropriate guardrails so that its outputs are safe, fair and explainable. During this webinar, experts in Canada set

  • Posted June 9, 2026
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  Overcoming barriers to AI to unleash transformation in government

  Many governments around the world are working to take full advantage of artificial intelligence to streamline their operations and better serve citizens – but too often legacy IT systems and

  • Posted June 8, 2026
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  Canada publishes new national AI strategy with focus on trust and sovereignty

  The Government of Canada has released its latest national AI strategy, setting out how it will work to drive artificial intelligence across the economy over the next 10 years, with

  • Posted June 8, 2026
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  ‘I worry about our ability to go fast enough’: interview with Mivy James, chief technology officer for UK Defence

  A technologist at heart, Mivy James is working in the Ministry of Defence and at a time when UK defence is undergoing a major overhaul. She tells Jack Aldane about

  • Posted June 4, 2026
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  New Zealand government announces plan to cut nearly 9,000 public service jobs

  The New Zealand government has said that it plans to cut around 8,700 public service jobs over the next three years to capture NZ$2.4bn (US$1.4bn) in savings. The decision is

  • Posted May 27, 2026
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  New Zealand PM outlines hard realities of a world ‘ordered by power’ in pre-Budget speech

  The New Zealand government needs to prioritise national security and resilience and a commitment to multilateralism in a world that is “changing quickly and becoming less predictable”, the country’s prime

  • Posted May 27, 2026
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