If Labour wants to get elected, its thinktanks should think again | Simon Jenkins

Calling on Ed Miliband to deliver 'transformative change' and a 'holistic approach' will achieve nothing. To win, Labour must deploy specifics, not platitudes

I sympathise with party leaders. They get daily criticism, personal scrutiny, abuse and exhaustion, and they must put up with those pains in the backside, thinktanks. Labour's Ed Miliband is today savaged in a letter to the Guardian by "an alliance of thinktanks on the party's left and centre right". After a weekend of polls showing his...