The 12 members, which include Hay Festival director Peter Florence, Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM and BBC broadcaster Roy Noble, will look at nine topics.

BBC: Pavilion and Gorsedd

The winner, announced ahead of the Hay Festival, was chosen by Everyman's Library publisher David Campbell, Hay Festival director Peter Florence and broadcaster and author Jim Naughtie.

BBC: Howard Jacobson

The 12 members of the task-and-finish group, who include Hay Festival director Peter Florence, Lord Elis-Thomas AM and BBC broadcaster Roy Noble, are looking at nine topics.

BBC: National Eisteddfod: Fixed bases would be a 'disaster'

And once in power, notes Peter Mair of the European University Institute in Florence, governments lose popularity more quickly, not least because they are constrained by decisions taken in Brussels.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne