‘The report reminds us of Old Testament calls to help “the widow, orphan and foreigner”.’ Photo: by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash
The word on the street: Simon Webb investigates the ‘precariat’
‘For some people today, every aspect of life is precarious.’
by Simon Webb
6th January 2023
Sometimes, new words are ugly. Sometimes they are ugly in themselves, sometimes they are ugly because they name something that is itself ugly. One new word, ‘precariat’, is quite attractive in itself – a blend of ‘precarious’ and ‘proletariat’, two English words with French origins – but the fact that we need it is a decidedly ugly truth.
