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:
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 [...]
12 January 2023
1.7 MINS
The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its definition of the word “woman”. Underneath the existing primary definition of "woman" which reads: "Adult female human being" the dictionary now says: "An adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a [...]
10 January 2023
1.1 MINS
Grab your mask to wear over the mask you are already wearing. No, not the cloth one, the N95 one. Queue up for your 58th booster shot. Hurry, pull the kids out of school. Cancel all family gatherings. Unless you want to be responsible for [...]
9 January 2023
2.2 MINS
... rather than the actual woman he raped and murdered. “(A fellow) inmate described McLaughlin as a painfully shy person who came out of her shell after deciding to transition. ‘She always had a smile and a dad joke,’ Hicklin said. ‘If you ever talked [...]
6 January 2023
1.1 MINS
Doctor Strange actor is hit up for reparations. Benedict Cumberbatch starred in Doctor Strange, which is appropriate, considering what is now being asked of him is strange indeed. The actor is being asked to pay money because his great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandad, [...]
5 January 2023
2.4 MINS
How intellectual stupidity and moral cowardice allowed the culture to be trashed. I’ve heard this expression used numerous times as a reason for people to stay silent in the face of evil. I’ve heard preachers say it from pulpits, and receive applause as if they [...]
4 January 2023
1.8 MINS
The Prime Minister hosted the Australian and South African cricket teams on Sunday at a function where he extolled the virtues of his proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Albanese made his usual pitch, but it’s a no-ball since it involves appealing to emotion rather than [...]
3 January 2023
2.3 MINS
It feels like Western economies are being hollowed out from within. The body advising the UK Government on climate change has said that 62 per cent of emissions reductions must come from “behaviour change and individual choices”. In other words, the government must train people [...]
2 January 2023
3.1 MINS
Nine Reasons the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament is a Dud. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised a referendum next year to include an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Australian Constitution. His proposal is unnecessary, discriminatory, divisive, misleading, distracting, hurried, elitist, highly political and little [...]
30 December 2022
2 MINS
The perfect candidate for a society in which identity trumps ideas. He’s an uneducated narcissist in a very casual relationship with reality -- George Santos should make an excellent politician. Santos is the Republican congressman-elect who has this weekend sensationally admitted to making up his [...]





