This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee

The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic Shock ricocheted around the world of social research this week with the sudden news of the imminent closure of the High Pay Centre (HPC). Founded in 2011 by the former Guardian business editor Deborah Hargreaves to focus on analysis of extreme pay at the top and the widening pay gap between CEOs and their average employees, its closure feels like the death of an idea. Others campaign on tax and redistribution but the HPC was concerned with “predistribution”. It was unique in l

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