UK cybersecurity chief issues stark warning over hostile state threats – The Guardian

What’s on the front page of The Guardian this morning? 

The front page of The Guardian this morning – 03/12/2025  – reports that the new head of National Cyber Security Centre is  to warn of the risk to infrastructure in first major speech.

1. The UK is underestimating the severity of the online threat it faces from hostile states and criminal gangs, the country’s cybersecurity chief will warn. Richard Horne, the head of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, will cite a trebling of “severe” incidents amid Russian “aggression and recklessness” and China’s “highly sophisticated” digital operations.

2. Caps on political donations are being considered by ministers as part of sweeping reforms to the UK electoral system. Labour is examining proposals to limit how much individuals and companies can donate to political parties as part of an effort to tighten the rules around money in UK politics.

3. The BBC has rejected calls to pull Gregg Wallace from its scheduled programmes as the MasterChef presenter apologised for dismissing his accusers as “middle class women of a certain age”.

4. A wave of airstrikes has pummelled hospitals and neighbourhoods in the rebel-held region of Idlib in northern Syria as Islamist insurgents continued to battle forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad after the militants’ lightning assault on Aleppo.