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 August 2025
3.1 MINS
The very nations that scream about Israel violating international law in their treatment of the Palestinians now plan to break international law in order to recognise a Palestinian state. It’s a perfect circle of stupidity. But then again, what else can they do? There’s “momentum”!
1 August 2025
2.6 MINS
Hamas has in its charter the eradication of Israel as the reason for its existence. Their sponsor, Iran, has as its stated goal a Jew free world by 2040. Does it never occur to our leaders that recognising a Palestinian state will only be used by the Palestinian leadership to hasten that goal?
28 July 2025
2.3 MINS
If there’s one thing that’s truly gone beyond the world’s worst fears, it’s not the situation in Gaza – it’s the West’s inability to call evil by its name.
23 July 2025
2.3 MINS
UK Labour’s decision to allow 16-year-olds to vote is political insurance for the Left, under he guise of being a noble 'expansion of democracy'. Now many politicians in Australia want the same vote-harvesting rules here.
22 July 2025
2.6 MINS
Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, should quit in disgust. The government’s insistence that it cannot consider the recommendations of her report into antisemitism – until they receive a report into Islamophobia – is as absurd as it is shameful.
21 July 2025
1.7 MINS
Albanese described his China trip as “a breakthrough” in relations. And he’s not wrong. Six days of kowtowing in exchange for two cuddly panda metaphors for our foreign policy – slow-moving, disinterested, and wholly reliant on the CCP.
18 July 2025
1.2 MINS
Art once sought to capture the divine. Mount Gambier’s $136,000 Blue Blob is not so much art as a cry for help from a culture too proud to admit that it’s completely lost the plot.
17 July 2025
3.2 MINS
When women's rights collide with gender ideology, Liberal MPs dive for cover like a Greenie hearing the word “coal"
16 July 2025
3.5 MINS
Anthony Albanese is in China this week, talking about trade and tourism. It’s the great diplomatic two-step where the Prime Minister smiles sweetly, shakes hands, and pretends not to notice the armed warships idling just off our coast.
14 July 2025
1.5 MINS
In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, the Iranian President argued that his country's infamous chants of "Death to America" really mean death to crimes and killing. Perhaps most concerning of all, Tucker took it all in with a straight face.
11 July 2025
3.9 MINS
Superman’s latest reboot isn’t just a movie — it’s a political lecture wrapped in spandex, raising questions about Hollywood’s priorities and what audiences really want from their heroes.
8 July 2025
1.6 MINS
King Charles is now officially in charge of saving the planet. No, this is not satire. Buckingham Palace confirmed last week in its annual report that the monarch’s job description had been amended to include providing leadership on “environmental sustainability.”
7 July 2025
2.1 MINS
While violent anti-Semitism played out across Melbourne over the weekend, the Jewish community is left watching the PM play a game of anti-Semitic whack-a-mole using a pool noodle and a copy of the Human Rights Commission charter.
4 July 2025
4.9 MINS
Thanks to Australia’s first-ever Indigenous Truth Telling Inquiry – an expensive guilt parade funded by the colonisers – we finally have a clearer picture of what reconciliation really means. Not coming together, but separate nations and forever fragmentation. Plus invoices. Lots and lots of invoices.
3 July 2025
2.7 MINS
China's ambassador to Australia has kindly assured Anthony Albanese there is no reason to increase Australia’s defence spending. When a communist dictatorship tells you NOT to spend money on defence, it’s probably time to double it.
1 July 2025
3.3 MINS
Meet the New York City hopefuls vying to be mayor this November. Promoting criminal-friendly crime policies, state-financed abortion and taxpayer-funded therapy goats, it’s a buffet of bad ideas served with a side of moral smugness. What could possibly go wrong?
30 June 2025
3.7 MINS
Melbourne-based street sweeper Shaun Turner committed a secular sin in the progressive gospel when he questioned whether an Acknowledgement of Country was necessary before the weekly street sweeping session. Swept aside from his job, the council has now reinstated him.
27 June 2025
2.5 MINS
Starting 1 July, you can walk into a NSW registry, look the bored clerk squarely in the eye, and change the gender on your birth certificate without presenting a single medical document, psychological report, or even so much as a strategically placed Band-Aid. Because "inclusion".
25 June 2025
2.2 MINS
Tennis great Martina Navratilova says she would never have defected from communist Czechoslovakia as a teenager had she known Donald Trump would end up as President. Perhaps someone’s strung their tennis racket just a little too tight.
24 June 2025
1.5 MINS
Melbourne’s Trinity Grammar School – a place that once prided itself on producing gentlemen – is now proudly producing confusion, promoting a queer pro-Palestinian activist with shocking social media posts for their Pride Week assembly.





