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:
6 April 2023
4.9 MINS
... But the Kiwi PM sure knows a pregnant pause. Can we agree that if you don’t know what a woman is, you shouldn’t be running a country? Because on that basis, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins should quit now. The highly educated, grown [...]
4 April 2023
1.5 MINS
I don’t know about you, but I’d take a safe plane over an environmentally friendly plane every day of the week.
3 April 2023
3.4 MINS
It’s either shameless virtue signalling, or it is an attempt to influence the way supporters vote — so which is it? The Collingwood Football Club claims it is neither. They also claim their supporters have teeth, and no criminal convictions. But I digress. Australia’s biggest [...]
31 March 2023
2.5 MINS
Every time someone apologises for telling the truth, the price of telling the truth rises. There will come a point soon, if we have not reached it already, where speaking the truth is simply too costly. And what becomes of a society in which people [...]
30 March 2023
1.6 MINS
The new misogyny is the old misogyny, but led by men in dresses. ‘Let Women Speak’, they said. Well here’s what happened when a diminutive woman tried to speak in Auckland on Saturday 25 March: Posie Parker was drowned out and attacked by a baying [...]
29 March 2023
2.5 MINS
The industrial revolution is worth celebrating. Did you turn your lights off at 8.30 pm on Saturday night? You didn’t? Why do you hate the earth so much? Climate criminal! The United Nations was urging people around the world to observe Earth Hour by turning [...]
28 March 2023
8.7 MINS
Sometimes I read the newspaper and can’t work out whether to cry at the state of the world or laugh at how crazy things have become. Reading a column on the Let Women Speak movement at the weekend I mostly shook my head in disbelief. [...]
24 March 2023
2.8 MINS
Popular culture demands that you don't believe your lying eyes. George Orwell once quipped that in a time of deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. And so it was that yesterday, someone stating the bleeding obvious created news headlines. Australia’s leading athletics coach [...]
24 March 2023
3.3 MINS
Never before has an Australian Premier held so many people -- by whom I mean women -- in so much contempt. And -- incredibly -- for his contempt of women, he receives plaudits as if he were the personification of virtue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qhoEouZNhU Welcome to [...]
23 March 2023
1.8 MINS
The Bible brings Methodist Bible College into disrepute. Awkward. A Christian Bible college in the UK didn’t just sack a theology lecturer for tweeting that homosexuality was a sin, it threatened to report him to counter-terrorism authorities! That’s right. Expressing a Biblical view of sexuality [...]
23 March 2023
1 MINS
He is one of the world’s healthiest men, but he is considered too great a health risk to enter the United States. Novak Djokovic will miss this week’s Miami Open tennis tournament after being denied entry to America because he is not vaccinated for covid-19. [...]
22 March 2023
0.3 MINS
A woman speaks at Let Women Speak rally. Men identifying as women protest. More men arrive, and perform a Nazi salute. The man leading Victoria slams the woman. The man leading the Liberals, of which the woman who spoke is part, says she will be [...]
21 March 2023
4.7 MINS
You might have read during the week that the Australian Catholic University has told its various campuses to remove gay pride flags from its libraries. I spoke about it on The Bolt Report. (You can watch below). What we did not have time to speak [...]
20 March 2023
3.6 MINS
How 'inclusion' is destroying the integrity of female sports. It’s funny how the universe works. The first round of the women’s NBL1 competition is set for April 1st. That’s when the Kilsyth Cobras, whose team will likely include a biological man, take on the Geelong [...]
16 March 2023
2.3 MINS
The church didn’t stand up when it had the chance. Now we have Catholic women being arrested on the streets of England for silent prayer, and still barely a peep from the church.
15 March 2023
1.6 MINS
NSW Police are investigating a Bible reference written on a rainbow crossing in Wollongong. LGBTQ activists are outraged at what they describe as a “hate crime” and “homophobic vandalism”. Someone had the temerity to write “Genesis 9:13” on the city’s Pride crosswalk. The Wollongong University [...]
25 January 2023
0.4 MINS
The Queensland Deputy Premier weighs in on UK euthanasia laws. Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles has written to the British Parliament urging them to legalise euthanasia. Of course, he has encouraged them not to use the terms “euthanasia” or “suicide”. Call it Voluntary Assisted Dying, [...]
23 January 2023
2.5 MINS
Virtue-signalling administrators are ruining sport. I intend to spend next January in New York so that I can watch the Australian Open at a decent hour. Last night’s epic five-set match between former world number one Andy Murray and Aussie hopeful Thanasi Kokkinakis finished at [...]
18 January 2023
1.8 MINS
1 in 9 officers have quit the Victorian police force since 2019. Perhaps the conduct of the organisation during the pandemic has caused the public to lose trust as well as interest in joining its service. Victorian police have begun a massive recruitment drive in [...]
17 January 2023
4.1 MINS
The New South Wales Premier is in hot water over a Nazi costume he donned a couple of decades ago, just as he prepares to take on the gambling industry and campaign for the upcoming state election. Does anyone really believe NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet [...]





