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:
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.
23 May 2024
1 MINS
The Walkley Foundation, which exists to encourage excellence in journalism, has announced it will part ways with sponsor Ampol. The move to dump Ampol comes after a green conga line of journalists and cartoonists protested the company's sponsorship of last year’s Walkley Awards.
22 May 2024
1.7 MINS
The livestream portal between New York City and Dublin demonstrates why we cannot have nice things. The portal — which, let’s face it, is really just two giant webcams set up 5,111km from each other — was operating less than a week before people’s behaviour deteriorated.
17 May 2024
4 MINS
The ABC has breathlessly reported that trans activists and Greens MPs don’t like Catholic doctrine. Journalists at the national broadcaster appear shocked that Catholics have not yet updated their 2000-year-old doctrine to better reflect the ABC Queer Instagram account.
14 May 2024
1.1 MINS
A judge has found Victoria Police were “aggressors” who used “unjustified violence” to attack anti-lockdown protestors during the Covid pandemic.
13 May 2024
1.3 MINS
This is a victory for Elon Musk over the absurdist eSafety Karen who exists only to enforce the approved State narrative. And it is a victory for everyday Australians over a censorious government that can no longer be trusted to have our best interests at heart.
13 May 2024
2.7 MINS
The Boy Scouts of America have decided they will arrest declining membership by becoming more inclusive. From 2025, the Boy Scouts will be known simply as Scouting America.
10 May 2024
1.4 MINS
The problem — and the charm — of inclusivity is that it strips everything of meaning. Take the decision by Hunter Valley Grammar School in New South Wales, for instance, to rename its traditional Mother’s Day Stall a “Family Gift Stall”.
7 May 2024
1.6 MINS
Albanese has had seven months to call out anti-semitism and to slam the weekly pro-Palestinian protests that promote hate and bile against the Jewish community. Privately making the right noises, in hushed tones, to the nation’s rabbis is hardly a response, let alone leadership.
6 May 2024
2.5 MINS
The BBC is worried that train drivers are “overwhelmingly middle-aged white men”. Now do Uber drivers! But I digress. Does the pigmentation of the train driver help the train stay on the tracks?
2 May 2024
5 MINS
Rather than answer the question as to how Australia became a place in which a clergyman cannot stand at his pulpit without fearing for his life, our political masters, champions of diversity, have decided to simply shut down all conversation on social media.
1 May 2024
1.2 MINS
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says abortion is the “type of issue” which could save Joe Biden from “bad polling numbers”. Oh my! Imagine pinning your hopes for re-election on helping women kill their babies in utero.





