James Macpherson
James Macpherson is a sought-after international speaker with a background in journalism at the Courier-Mail and Daily Telegraph. He previously pastored a significant church in Australia and South Africa. A well-recognised Australian journalist, James is a regular contributor to The Spectator and a host at Sky News. You can subscribe to receive all his articles on faith, culture and politics at his Substack.
Articles by James Macpherson:
11 July 2024
3.3 MINS
How are we meant to feel about the Prime Minister’s announcement that he is appointing a special envoy for anti-Semitism? How did we get to a point where we now need special advisors, in order to keep a law-abiding, peaceful, highly productive section of our community safe?
5 July 2024
3 MINS
The very idea that Payman sought wisdom from Allah before voting on policy issues has surprised many Australians who rarely give a second thought to religion. The fact is that no one arrives at any issue values-free. We all have a religion – whether we believe in God or not.
5 July 2024
1.8 MINS
People are right to be outraged that Melbourne primary school children have been taught to sing an Indigenous-themed anthem rather than the national anthem.
2 July 2024
2 MINS
Is there a climate emergency, or not? That’s the question North Sydney Council needs to answer after threatening to fine electric vehicle owners for running power cords across footpaths to charge their EVs.
1 July 2024
4 MINS
The Victorian Parliament will debate whether or not to continue opening proceedings with the Lord’s Prayer. The debate has been forced by the Catholic Church after the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan proposed ditching the prayer because, well, “diversity”.
28 June 2024
1.6 MINS
The debate was a disaster. And I don’t just mean for the Biden family. The debate was a disaster for America. It demonstrated — for all the world to see — that the United States is a nation utterly devoid of leadership.
28 June 2024
0.8 MINS
Greta, of course, is a great survivor too. Realising the climate jig was up, she has since moved on to supporting Hamas. In other words, she has gone from predicting the end of the world for everyone to predicting the end of the world for Jews.
27 June 2024
2 MINS
The Queensland Labor Government has said it will not release the health advice underpinning harsh restrictions imposed during the pandemic because it does not exist. This news will come as a massive shock to exactly nobody.
26 June 2024
2.7 MINS
In news that will do absolutely nothing to allay the fears of nervous fliers, Boeing has been accused of hiding faulty parts, and then losing track of them, and then installing some of them in new planes.
24 June 2024
2 MINS
The centrepiece of the NSW Labor Government’s budget was billions of dollars for public housing. Yet, at the same time that they were promising new homes to ease the housing crisis, they were refusing to raise the tax-free threshold on land tax.
20 June 2024
3 MINS
While standing firm on the rights of Australians to access affordable sausage sizzles, PM Albanese was rather less firm on the rights of Australian journalists to not be physically intimidated, harrassed or blocked on home soil by foreign agents.
19 June 2024
1.8 MINS
A quick examination of the Bromley Police Service’s online activity reveals that they are putting far more work into policing the missing man’s pronouns than they are into finding the missing man.
14 June 2024
2.9 MINS
The Celtics are currently battling the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA finals. A reporter from Yahoo Sports asked if Mazzulla thought it was significant that both head coaches were black, given the “plight” of black coaches.
11 June 2024
5.7 MINS
Hamas apologists, by which I mean Lefties, somehow always seem to forget that if Jewish hostages hadn’t been taken, Jewish hostages wouldn’t need rescuing.
5 June 2024
3.7 MINS
The stated target audience for Sesame Street is children aged between 2 and 5. So why do the show’s producers insist on marking Pride Month?
3 June 2024
3.3 MINS
On Friday, for the first time in its history, the USA convicted a former President of criminal charges. The Democrats have created a new rule. America is a nation in which political opponents are prosecuted.
31 May 2024
1.9 MINS
Melinda Gates has announced she will donate a billion dollars to support women around the world, particularly with their access to abortion services.
29 May 2024
3.9 MINS
It seems pretty clear that Aboriginality — or at least the most tenuous link to it — is now seen as a valid excuse for dangerous foreign nationals to remain in the country. All of this represents a disgusting betrayal.
28 May 2024
4.6 MINS
Well, this Daily Mail headline totally suckered me in: "Grandmother, 83, who married 37-year-old Egyptian toyboy after meeting him on Facebook issues warning against 'scammers and con-artists'". Like an aging granny drawn to a failed asylum seeker, I just couldn’t help myself.
24 May 2024
1.5 MINS
I’m sure you know about the Singapore Airlines plane that dropped suddenly after hitting turbulence on a flight out of London. Well, quicker than a pilot can say, “Fasten your seat belts,” climate catastrophists are using the incident as proof that we need to start eating bugs.





