That particular drone, the Watchkeeper, has a not-so-illustrious background:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/10/02/boxed-up-ba...

The Guardian also has an API: http://explorer.content.guardianapis.com/

This is really cool. I think these news APIs are really under appreciated

The Guardian actually owns thegrauniad.com -- somebody needs to set up the redirect

Having 'the' at the start is not ideal, but Guardian Glass (who own guardian.com) no doubt wanted a lot of money for it.

In any case, all the cool kids use gu.com