Insights
Longreads and analysis on drones, regulation, building safety and the built environment — from the DroneGeo Lab team.
The Locked Sky
Why Britain keeps frightening away the future it says it wants — and how a nervous country talked itself out of a generation of engineers.
The Friday Afternoon Britain's AI Went Dark — And Why a Letter From DC Should Worry Us More Than Any Cyberattack
Here is a question no British executive expected to be asking in 2026 — if Washington can switch off our AI on a Friday evening, should we be running Chinese open-source models on our own servers instead? Uncomfortable question. After last week, a serious one.
British Aviation Law Quietly Stopped Being About Pilots
On 20 May 2026, the Law Commission published 38 recommendations mapping a legal path to beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone flight. Nobody noticed. Every serious operator should.
The Falling Brick Problem Nobody Is Talking About
Why the probability of dying from a piece of masonry falling on your head in a British city is higher in 2026 than it was in 1976 — and why the construction industry is responsible.
Twelve Thousand, Five Hundred Buildings. One Hammer.
England has roughly 12,500 higher-risk buildings that need facade safety evidence under the Building Safety Act — and the industry's default inspection method is a trained ear and a hammer that can only ever reach one tile at a time.