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:
4 October 2022
1.3 MINS
UN Secretary for Global Communications Melissa Fleming has revealed how they have ensured you get the science they “own” when you search for climate change information online. She told a World Economic Forum meeting: “We partnered with Google. If you google ‘climate change’, you will [...]
3 October 2022
2.1 MINS
Virgin Atlantic has announced it will allow male pilots to wear skirts if it helps them to “express their true identity”. If you’re thinking that flying 300 people through the sky in a tin can attached to engines full of jet fuel is not really [...]
30 September 2022
1.7 MINS
Netflix has been accused of committing a hate crime by tagging their new series on mass murderer Jeff Dahmer as LGBTQ content. Dahmer, who killed and ate 17 people between 1978 and 1991, was a homosexual. His victims were also homosexuals. Dahmer's crimes included dismemberment, [...]
29 September 2022
2.1 MINS
Jacinda Ardern proposes taxing emissions from farm animals. Decimating the agricultural sector seems an acceptable sacrifice for jet-setting politicians. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has stood in for Prince William at a UN conference, describing herself as “an extremely poor substitute”. Other examples of [...]
28 September 2022
0.8 MINS
And the progressive left are terrified! Italy has its first-ever female Prime Minister -- and the progressive left are NOT happy. Which is weird, right? Because it’s the progressive left who bang on about the need for more women in politics, and about the importance [...]
27 September 2022
2.9 MINS
Surely offence and insult are in the eye of the beholder! Gender identity is a protected trait in Tasmania. This means it is illegal to discriminate against someone because they identify differently from their biological sex. And incredibly, it is illegal to offend or insult [...]
26 September 2022
1.5 MINS
Why would NYC push experienced teachers out of the classroom in the middle of a teacher shortage? In the middle of a teacher shortage, New York City has axed almost 2000 teachers and classroom aides for not being vaccinated. It’s madness. And you have to [...]
23 September 2022
3.1 MINS
The overblown celebration of former AFL coach Dean Laidley as glamorous Dani at the Brownlows strikes one as hollow praise. The problem with Western culture is not that we lack compassion, but that we have too much. It is commendable that the AFL community embraces [...]
22 September 2022
1.5 MINS
Why did a celebrity queuing up like everyone else make global news? Last week George Clooney enthused that Australian state governments did the right thing by locking citizens down during the Covid outbreak. Of course, Clooney was given a special exemption by the Australian government, [...]
21 September 2022
2.4 MINS
Imagine trying to get elected to parliament on the basis of nothing more than virtue signalling, and not even being able to get that right. The New South Wales Greens have been forced to apologise -- not once, but twice -- for seeking donations to [...]
20 September 2022
2.1 MINS
Blockade Australia -- the group responsible for massive traffic jams in Sydney when one of its members chained herself to her car’s steering wheel in the Harbour tunnel -- is demanding the country change its name. ‘Australia is not the name of this continent,’ the [...]
19 September 2022
3 MINS
An international study of heat, floods, drought, hurricanes and tornadoes has found no evidence of a “climate emergency”. Don’t expect that to make any difference to our suicidal net zero emissions fetish though. The climate emergency has never been about empirical evidence. The study, reported [...]
15 September 2022
1.5 MINS
Darling of the ABC and former Insiders host Barrie Cassidy cannot understand why the national broadcaster is devoting so much coverage to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. He tweeted during the week that the ABC had “misread its audience” and given in to rank [...]
14 September 2022
2.7 MINS
Irish teacher Enoch Burke is paying the price for refusing to kowtow to transgender ideology. How much longer will this farce continue in Western societies? Have you heard the one about the Irish schoolteacher, jailed for refusing to address a male student as ‘they’? It [...]
13 September 2022
2.3 MINS
Those who claim that the science is settled on the causes and current development of climate change, are silencing genuine scientific inquiry on the topic, in favour of the prevailing politically correct narrative. How many times do our betters need to tell us the science [...]
12 September 2022
1.6 MINS
Environmentalist virtue-signalling is as changeable as fashion trends, put on when convenient and forgotten when not. It was the perfect metaphor for woke progressive politics. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young woke up in South Australia. She flew to Canberra aboard a plane belching planet-destroying emissions. Having [...]
8 September 2022
1 MINS
Coalition support is at record lows. So what? “COALITION Support Plunges to a Record Low,” screamed the headlines this week. To which I reply: So what? Sure, support for the Liberal/National Party Coalition is at just 31% -- the equal lowest on record. But Anthony [...]
7 September 2022
1.7 MINS
Thank God for the Catholics! The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference advised its schools yesterday that they should hold fast to the truth that “a human being’s sex is a physical, biological reality”. The move not only provides clarity for school staff and families, it puts [...]
6 September 2022
2.5 MINS
In a cashless society, all transactions will be at the mercy of Big Tech and governments. Are we ready to give up our privacy and individual freedom for the convenience of swiping a card or phone? There has been a huge public outcry after Starbucks [...]
5 September 2022
5.4 MINS
The rise of the so-called gender-affirmation industry and its relationship with children is one of the most important stories of our time. Under the guise of science, we are being told that toddlers can know that they have been ‘born in the wrong bodies’. Under [...]





