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:
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 [...]
29 December 2022
2.3 MINS
Cue 2022's Most Spectacular Own Goal. The National Hockey League decided to stage a transgender match! The ultimate celebration of unicorns and non-binary joy! As far as own goals go, this was easily the most spectacular of 2022. The official NHL Twitter account tweeted: The [...]
28 December 2022
2.9 MINS
It seems I have upset Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. The Liberal Party leader wrote a scathing letter, published in The Spectator, about an article I wrote quoting his comments concerning sacked Essendon CEO Andrew Thorburn. Here is Mr Dutton’s letter to The Spectator: I would [...]
27 December 2022
2.2 MINS
Christmas would be better if we shed the religious baggage, Humanists UK insist. The Guardian newspaper ran a story last week hilariously headlined: “Christmas comes with good cheer. The tragedy is the religious baggage.” Ah, yes, celebrating the birth of Jesus would be so much [...]
26 December 2022
1.7 MINS
Planned Parenthood's Christmas tweet is ridiculous even by their low standards. When it comes to gaslighting, you can’t go past abortion provider Planned Parenthood. America’s largest abortion provider regularly tweets nonsense, but this one was a beauty even by their spectacularly low standards. In the [...]
23 December 2022
1.9 MINS
But the Bombers CEO doesn't get his job back. The Essendon Football Club has apologised to Andrew Thorburn, who was forced from his role as club CEO for the crime of attending an Anglican church. What a pity it took legal action for one of [...]
22 December 2022
1.2 MINS
A health expert is urging shopping centres to ban fat Santas. Health and wellness expert Vincent Candrawinata told The Herald Sun that overweight Santas promote ill health. Christmas must be a hoot at Mr Candrawinata’s place! But I digress. Overthinking He said: “We shouldn’t expect [...]
21 December 2022
1.6 MINS
Is it true that having women in politics has made it more civilised? Let us refer to some examples. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been caught on a hot mic referring to a fellow MP as an “arrogant prick”. The darling of global [...]
20 December 2022
1.6 MINS
A rare bird threatens to destroy investment in wind farms and completely derail Australia’s pursuit of Net Zero. The orange-bellied parrot migrates every year to Tasmania and its flight path takes it directly through a proposed wind farm. No problem -- according to Tasmania’s Environment [...]
19 December 2022
3.2 MINS
Entertainer slams the Catholic Church for opposing euthanasia. The Australian newspaper reported this week that Catholic priests are likely to deny the last rites to people who commit suicide with the help of the state. “Catholic priests to deny last rites in VAD (Voluntary Assisted [...]
16 December 2022
1.5 MINS
Climate catastrophist Chris Bowen delayed switching from a petrol car to an electric vehicle because he was determined to drive the latest Tesla. He could have had a Hyundai EV, but he insisted on waiting until the Tesla 3 was available, according to an article [...]
14 December 2022
2.5 MINS
People who list their pronouns in their bio -- or in their email signature -- are not being kind, or inclusive, or progressive. And they are most certainly not enlightened. They are legitimising the idea that self-identified gender should trump biological gender. They are legitimising [...]
13 December 2022
2.8 MINS
Elton John has quit Twitter. The iconic singer-songwriter advised his 1.1 million followers: All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world. I’ve decided to no [...]
12 December 2022
2 MINS
Discovery Channel’s Shark Week features too many white men and is overly negative about sharks, the latest excuse for a meaningful study has found. Public Library of Science researchers studied hundreds of Shark Week episodes and concluded the series too often presented great white man-eating [...]
9 December 2022
0.3 MINS
Imagine you offended your wife 200 years ago. Okay, okay, imagine your FRIEND offended his wife 200 years ago. And imagine she confronted him and he issued a genuine, heartfelt apology. Rather than forgive your friend, she insists that he sets aside a day every [...]
8 December 2022
5.2 MINS
Canada’s dystopian love affair with state-assisted dying grows more chilling by the day. Fashion house La Maison Simons has produced a (now deleted) three-minute advertisement promoting euthanasia as a trendy, progressive lifestyle choice. The ad presents state-sponsored MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) as ‘the most [...]
7 December 2022
6.9 MINS
News.com.au's takedown of former Prime Minister Scott Morrison's faith is groundbreaking journalism. Not. The headline read: Scott Morrison “has a God complex” and recited the Bible in meetings, new book claims. Whoa. This’ll be good, I thought. I couldn’t wait to read it. Can you [...]
6 December 2022
0.6 MINS
I’m at a loss to explain the fascination our supposedly conservative politicians have with blokes dressed in drag. Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg voted last week against a motion to hold an inquiry into the alarming number of children being experimented on with hormones and irreversible [...]
5 December 2022
2.4 MINS
A sign-language interpreter performing in a Broadway production of The Lion King has allegedly been fired for being white. Keith Wann, 53, claims that he was removed from the show because the director did not want white actors representing black characters. By black characters, of course, we mean African [...]
2 December 2022
2.1 MINS
The World Health Organization has announced a brand-new, stigma-free name for the Monkeypox after US President Joe Biden denounced the name as racist. The disease transmitted -- not exclusively but overwhelmingly -- through gay sex will henceforth be known as the mpox. The creative geniuses [...]





