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:
31 December 2025
1.9 MINS
From ancient Rome to modern Victoria, sport and spectacle are used to distract from crime, decay — and political accountability.
30 December 2025
2.6 MINS
Chris Minns says that "confronting" security measures are needed — but the prospect of police snipers and soldiers on Australian streets forces deeper questions about government failures and national decline.
25 December 2025
2.8 MINS
Australia’s leaders and media refuse to confront reality, insisting Islamist terror has nothing to do with Islam—an exercise in denial that undermines security, accountability, and public trust in policing and governance.
24 December 2025
4 MINS
A searing indictment of antisemitism, political cowardice, and Islamist ideology—arguing that Hanukkah attacks aren’t coincidences, but consequences of denial, indulgence, and a refusal to confront hard truths.
22 December 2025
1.6 MINS
Girl Guides Australia has proudly announced it will continue to recognise boys who identify as girls… as girls, while Girl Guides UK has announced boys will be excluded after parents threatened legal action against the organisation.
18 December 2025
4 MINS
After years of verbal gymnastics, semantic tap-dancing, and ideological denial — we’re finally allowed to say the word Islam in the same sentence as terrorism.
16 December 2025
7 MINS
Accused gunman Naveed Akram graduated from an Islamic college where he learned to recite the Koran. The Bondi massacre calls for leadership action — not mere words.
11 December 2025
2 MINS
A teacher in London was sacked over comments to students, including Muslim ones, that England was a Christian state which had King Charles as the head of the Church of England. The police were involved in investigating the alleged 'hate crime'.
9 December 2025
5.2 MINS
After being asked last year what a woman is, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody still cannot give an answer. It's a shame her job relies on knowing it.
2 December 2025
3.5 MINS
A push to remove the Islamic religion as a factor in Australia’s terrorism laws sparks heated debate, with critics warning the change risks weakening national security and ignoring real-world motivations.
28 November 2025
1.6 MINS
A male competitor briefly claimed the World’s Strongest Woman title, exposing once again the absurdity of ignoring biological reality in women’s sport.
27 November 2025
2.2 MINS
Australia’s new “interstellar Indigenous policy” grant sparks satire, with critics lampooning a space program focused on cultural protocols over spacecraft, engineering, or anything that might actually reach space.
21 November 2025
3 MINS
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is reportedly set to announce a ban on transgender women – by which I mean biological men – competing against females: a long-overdue correction that acknowledges biological reality and restores fairness to women’s sport after years of ideological pressure.
19 November 2025
6.6 MINS
The Coalition stakes its claim on affordable energy, challenging Labor’s Net Zero obsession based on questionable climate science. With real-world economics on their side, they could win both the argument—and the next election.
14 November 2025
4 MINS
The Albanese Government’s rushed social media ban for under-16s takes effect in a month — but with no clear plan, no firm details, and plenty of political “cracks”.
11 November 2025
2.7 MINS
The Albanese Government has unveiled its inaugural climate risk assessment and, according to the document, Brisbane will soon be the lost city of Atlantis and Townsville a mass grave.
10 November 2025
1.9 MINS
When Muslims kill Muslims in Sudan, it’s genocide. But when Muslims kill Christians in Nigeria — 7,000 this year at the rate of 35 murders a day — it’s apparently “complex”.
31 October 2025
2.3 MINS
We’ve now reached that special stage of national enlightenment where even medical emergencies are now to be judged — not by urgency, and not by injury — but by identity. Congratulations, Victoria. You’ve finally cured racism: by institutionalising it.
30 October 2025
2.4 MINS
Gay athletes have competed — and won — in every major international sporting event for decades. So why do we need a separate Olympics based on what happens after hours?
10 October 2025
4.5 MINS
Yesterday proved there is no genocide in Gaza. There never was. All Hamas ever had to do in order to end the suffering of the Palestinian people was to release the hostages.





