https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/blog.html Rogue Analysis - Yusuf Imaad Khan's blog quarto-1.10.18 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan Richard Paul-Astley https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/the-last-european/ 1 The institutions constructed after 1945 to ensure that the worst could never recur are collapsing. The public sphere (Öffentlichkeit), that great mediating structure through which citizens were supposed to reach rational consensus, has been gutted and repurposed as an apparatus of manipulation, spectacle, and algorithmic rage.² We are living through a crisis of democratic legitimacy so severe that it has become difficult even to articulate what has been lost, because the very capacity for rational articulation is threatened. ]]> https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/the-last-european/ Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/freedom-and-proscription/ ]]> Palestine Generative Art https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/freedom-and-proscription/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsci-of-life/ ]]> Historical Materialism Social Epistemology https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/gramsci-of-life/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/cop-consensus/ COP29 has kicked off this week in Baku. As jaded as some may be about climate diplomacy, all options must be considered, pursued, and exhausted to make a desperately needed dent in the degree of warming. ]]> Climate https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/cop-consensus/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/everybody-was-inflation-fighting/ Federal Reserve is set to reduce interest rates for the first time in four years. Rates were hiked up globally to kill off the Great Inflation born of the pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war. Hiking rates was a blunt and painful way to deal with inflation - it increased the cost of borrowing, tightened financial conditions, and squeezed economies. Countries the world over increased rates to tackle inflation and to also maintain dollar exchange rates. Worse, the rate hikes increased debt servicing costs for developing countries, precipitating debt crises. And to really pile things on, the higher rates have likely impeded the speed and scale of investment for the green transition. Given the Federal Reserve’s primacy in the global financial system, this forthcoming rate cut is huge - even if overdue. ]]> Economics https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/everybody-was-inflation-fighting/ Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/DaFT-Punk/ Out of curiosity, I decided to roughly remake/build on an FT Climate Graphic from early March using ggplot2, Observable Plot, and D3. ]]> Climate https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/DaFT-Punk/ Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:00:00 GMT https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/in-our-thousands/ ]]> Palestine Generative Art https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/in-our-thousands/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/uk-sycophantic-stooge-us-imperialism/ In light of the UK’s recent abstentions at the UN on a ceasefire in Gaza, I do some simple analysis on UK/US voting patterns at the UN General Assembly. ]]> Palestine UK US UN https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/uk-sycophantic-stooge-us-imperialism/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/Mills-Race-Rawls/ 28/08/2024 - This blog post is based on some charts I made for my Contemporary Political Theory students while we were covering critics of Rawls, including Mills. I was trying to keep it interesting for them. I’m retrospectively posting it here, tagged with the original date, because why not… ]]> Political Philosophy https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/Mills-Race-Rawls/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/hockey-sticks-of-prosperity-and-doom/ The other day I made some charts for The Polycrisis newsletter. They were for a piece on the globalisation debate, written by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp. In this post, I offer some general reflections, and run through the steps to make one of the trickier charts that appeared in it. ]]> Climate Globalisation https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/hockey-sticks-of-prosperity-and-doom/ Sat, 02 Sep 2023 23:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/paycuts/ ]]> LSE Unions Strikes Employment https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/paycuts/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/LSEUCU_Casualisation_YIK/ “The Crisis of Academic Casualisation at LSE”. I would recommend taking a look. They summarise their main findings in a twitter thread too. It is a damning indictment of LSE and its purported aims as a so called higher education institution. Take a look at one of the highlights: ]]> LSE Unions Strikes Employment Politics Economics https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/LSEUCU_Casualisation_YIK/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/blackhole/ Rogue Analysis we’ll be looking at how to make your very own fiscal black hole! Usually this is a bit tricky to make at home because not everybody has access to a machine capable of spinning economic matters into incredibly dense journalism that no amount of nuance can escape from. Lets get to it! 🧑‍🍳 ]]> Cooking Politics Economics Money Budget Satire https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/blackhole/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/TrussDodgyNetwork/ 1 was a disaster in both content and consequence. This is widely understood. To believe it was about growth is beyond a joke. The government claimed that tax cuts for the rich will somehow lead to growth that will boost wages and support public services. This is either unsupported by the evidence, or the opposite is true. Shockingly, it turns out that tax cuts for the rich (who spend less and save more as a proportion of their income) will just benefit the rich. ]]> Networks Corruption Politics Money Budget https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/TrussDodgyNetwork/ Sat, 08 Oct 2022 23:00:00 GMT Yusuf Imaad Khan https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/welcome/ “Rogue Analysis”. I’d like to join the community of philosophy blogs, practice my writing, and clarify a few thoughts. ]]> Introductions https://www.yusufimaadkhan.com/posts/welcome/ Sat, 27 Aug 2022 23:00:00 GMT