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:
9 August 2024
2 MINS
The Democrats’ presidential ticket is worse than dumb and dumber — it’s woke and wokest. In a development not even Saturday Night Live writers could have imagined, Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
6 August 2024
3.1 MINS
Kamala Harris made much about becoming the first Indian American senator in 2016, but eight years later, is now making much of her attempt to become a black president of the United States.
5 August 2024
5.6 MINS
Unless there is a reversal of the decision by the IOC, Paris will be remembered as the Olympics that sanctioned violence against women. Medals for men beating up women.
2 August 2024
2.2 MINS
The problem with so-called progressives is that the very term they use to describe themselves begs a question that they can never answer – progress towards what?
30 July 2024
3.5 MINS
This US election is clearly very scripted. As that great political pundit Shakespeare once observed — this election is just a stage, and Biden and Kamala are merely players. Biden has his exit, and Kamala has her entrance. But Barack Obama, he plays many parts.
29 July 2024
1.3 MINS
The strange death of Europe continued with the Olympic Games opening ceremony mocking Christianity, as if doing so was somehow enlightened. The Opening Ceremony of the Games may as well have been the closing ceremony of Western civilisation.
19 July 2024
2.6 MINS
If you can wake up for breakfast as a man and sit down for dinner as a woman, it only goes to show there’s less to being a woman than one might have thought. It turns out any old man can do it.
18 July 2024
2 MINS
You have to shake your head at the way the Left, who get offended at anything Trump says (and a lot he does not say), are suddenly sooooo forgiving when one of their own openly says he wishes someone dead.
16 July 2024
2.2 MINS
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump is the turning point in the US election campaign. Trump will be the next President of the United States — if he lives that long. There is now no doubt about how far the Left will go to stop Trump in their blind pursuit of power.
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.





