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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  Select IT staff exempt from Canadian government return-to-office mandate; US revitalises agency internship programmes: workforce & management news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Canadian federal government exempts some IT workers from return-to-office rules The Canadian federal government

  • Posted January 26, 2023
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  Former government department chiefs blast ‘homogeneity of thought’ in UK civil service

  Two former UK government department bosses have called for civil service reform but say its failures are systemically rooted and unlikely to change under the current educational, cultural and corporate

  • Posted January 24, 2023
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  New Zealand’s prime minister resigns; Taiwan passes climate bill enshrining promotion of plant-based foods: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. Jacinda Ardern steps down as prime minister of New Zealand citing burnout New Zealand’s

  • Posted January 19, 2023
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  Canadian public servants could face discipline for shirking return-to-office rules

  The Canadian federal government has said public servants who refuse to resume work at shared workspaces in accordance with its return-to-office mandate could face repercussions from managers on a case-by-case

  • Posted January 18, 2023
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  UK Cabinet Office seeks feedback on data sharing legislation to develop digital ID

  The UK Cabinet Office has launched a public consultation on data sharing powers between departments that could aid government’s plan to make citizens’ online user verification easier using digital identity.

  • Posted January 16, 2023
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  Canadian government readies return-to-office mandate in effort to codify hybrid work model

  The Canadian federal government will soon require public servants to work from the office at least two to three days a week. The mandate outlining the new arrangement is expected

  • Posted January 11, 2023
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  New US open government strategy; Turkey to use blockchain to verify service users: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. White House releases action plan on open government The Biden administration has released plans

  • Posted January 5, 2023
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  From flexible working to digital ID: Global Government Forum’s top news stories of 2022

  What you’ve been reading over the last 12 months This year saw global turmoil as the economic fallout of COVID-19 took hold and Europe witnessed the first war on its

  • Posted December 27, 2022
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  US Senate passes bill to abolish ‘government speak’ in agency documents

  A bipartisan bill aimed at replacing existing legislation on clear writing in government has passed unanimously through the US Senate in a fresh move towards making official documents easier to

  • Posted December 19, 2022
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  New Zealand launches public inquiry into COVID response; Australia rolls out long-awaited myGov app: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. New Zealand announces public inquiry into COVID-19 response New Zealand is preparing to launch

  • Posted December 8, 2022
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