Opinion Angry: Jane Hautot with Andrew Lansley. Image Alamy 02 Dec 2014 Warmongers and spin doctors: Iraq and the NHS Iain Wilson
Opinion An F/A-18F Super Hornet launches from the flight deck. Image Travis Alston/U.S. Navy/Getty Images 02 Dec 2014 Extreme ways: US led airstrikes bolster the Islamic State Elliot Murphy
Opinion 16 February 2013: over 1000 march in Newcastle 27 Nov 2014 Newcastle’s council cuts and the myth of the heroic civic leader Alex Snowdon
Opinion Teresa May. Photo: Getty 25 Nov 2014 The British establishment: demonising Muslims, attacking civil liberties Lindsey German
Opinion A prisoner in his cell: the rules put in place a blanket ban on families sending in small items to prisoners. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images 23 Nov 2014 Tory prisons policy produces results: suicide, murder, despair Clare Sambrook
Opinion The offending ‘Image from #Rochester’ Photo: @EmilyThornberry 21 Nov 2014 Dancing to Ukip’s tune won’t save Labour Lindsey German
Opinion Glasgow Southside RIC with their banner 18 Nov 2014 RIC: Scotland’s political awakening continues Jonathon Shafi
Opinion Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Observer 15 Nov 2014 The open conspiracy against Ed Miliband Alastair Stephens
Opinion Brick Lane residents confront the Nazis, 1978. Photo: Syd Shelton 14 Nov 2014 A history of struggle: race and class in the East End Kevin Ovenden