Roger Caillois has a whole category for this kind of play in his theory of games, one of the four categories: ilinx. No winners or losers, no competition, just a relation to physicality, to use of body, that has a form of pleasure or thrill. Rolling down a hill is a primary example he uses.

As a predictable result, the Peoples' Action Party made much of the failure of the Labor Front to abolish the repressive powers inherited from colonial authorities.

Also, the Peoples' Action Party was led by Lee Kuan Yew.

The less moderate part of the electoral Left, the Peoples’ Action Party, had been formed a few months prior to the election with significant participation of people who had been detained under such colonial repression, and of militant trade unions which were also subject to stifling restrictions.

The more moderate Labor Front ran on some social democratic reforms, institutionalising post-colonial independence, and especially on the promise to abolish the repressive Emergency Regulations left over from the colonial period.

And upon forming a new government immediately betrayed that promise.

I saw Sam Seder talking about this speech recently.

m.youtube.com/shorts/aiztO...

'Colourful racing identity' used to be journalist-speak for 'participant in organised crime'.

Back then I think they'd have avoided calling someone a 'real estate identity' if the person involved was literally at the races at the time, because of those implications...

The World Health Organisation report notes that:

"The UN Satellite Centre reported that as of 23 September, the extent of damage in Gaza City encompassed approximately 83% of all structures.”

According to the WHO 11 November 2025 Public Health Situation Analysis:

“Most people in Gaza reside in inadequate shelters that fail to meet basic emergency standards, leaving them exposed to harsh winter conditions."

The harsh rains have begun in Palestine.

And Israel is deliberately starving hundreds of thousands of people.

Mahmood Mamdani wrote in his 2004 book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror:

Excerpt from the chapter on #CripTheVote in Lisa Diedrich's 2024 University of Minnesota Press book, Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism.

www.jstor.org/stable/10.57...

@lisadiedrich.bsky.social

I didn't read the NYT piece... so I don't know if they mentioned her 2014 tweet that stated:

“I may not be able to join #Ferguson protests in my area because of my disability, but I tweet my dissent! #DisabilitySolidarity.”

Excerpt from the 11 November 2025 FAO and WFP report 'Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity November 2025 to May 2026 outlook'.

UNRWA Situation Report #196 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem (11 November 2025).

www.unrwa.org/resources/re...

According to Israel, allowing fresh meat into Gaza is outside of their definition of humanitarian aid.