He stabbed out the number and after a single ring Piasecki answered.

NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

Its greatest exponent is Yasuki Hiramatsu, born into a family of metalsmiths, who, through an annealing process, can twist a single length of gold or silver into a ring or necklace enchantingly resembling a minimalist bird's-nest.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary jewellery

Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring of Dandelion Chocolate might be making the best single-origin chocolate bars in the country.

WSJ: Bits and Bites: News You Can Eat

But the church does shift between considering all assets as part of a single pool when that suits, and claiming that funds have always been separate and ring-fenced when they are exposed to claims.

ECONOMIST: The Catholic church in America

The single gravest error in this budget, and it is one that Mr Osborne will come to rue, was ring-fencing health.

ECONOMIST: Britain's budget