Featured photojournalist: Matt Dunham

A demonstrator taking part in a protest over pay reacts as he is confronted by police officers in London on 9 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

An Occupy London activist sings as he plays his guitar outside St Paul's Cathedral in London on 16 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A city worker shields his eyes from the low sun in front of a branch of Northern Rock on the day the government announced the sale of the nation's first victim of the credit crisis to billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group for £747 million on 17 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

People argue about their different religious opinions at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London on 20 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A schoolgirl walks past a building site hoarding in Primrose Hill in London on 14 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A woman and a jogger on a foggy Hampstead High Street in north London on 23 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Police search a supporter of the Occupy London protest before taking him away for leaning on and damaging a part of the entrance doors of a nearby branch of the Nat West bank beside the camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in London, on 24 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A pensioner takes part in the national public sector pension strike march in London on 30 November 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Danish people hold candles in memory of lost friends during the annual lighting up ceremony for the Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, London. The tree is the city of Oslo's traditional Christmas gift to the City of Westminster as a token of thanks for British support during the years of occupation during the second world war. This photograph was taken on 1 December 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A man helps a woman out of the water after taking part in the annual outdoor 'December dip' swim at Parliament Hill Lido on Hampstead Heath in north London. The water temperature for the event organised by Britain's Outdoor Swimming Society was measured at eight degrees Celsius Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Crowds move through Oxford Street, in London, which was closed to traffic for part of the day due to the volume of Christmas shoppers on 4 December 2011 Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP