Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 January 2016

A terrorist plot to attack Britain was foiled after the RAF heard commercial pilots discussing targets on their radios.… planned in the week after the Paris massacre… used coded messages from the cockpits of their passenger jets… were using the emergency “Mayday” channel in the belief they were not being monitored…

The port at Calais was shut down after some fifty migrants managed to board a ferry that was bound for Britain. 500 migrants forced their way past police lines and headed for the port, and 150 managed to breach the barrier fence. Of those, fifty made it onto the ferry.

In other news, the Bishop of London recommends that vicars grow beards in order to demonstrate their holiness to Muslims, who are now the dominant religious group in London.…

…On this day in 1908 the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. The Boy Scouts of America was founded Feb 8, 1910.…

…it’s worthwhile exploring Trump’s worldview. To do that, we must separate two elements of that worldview: his current positions, and his historic positions. The first goes to supposed conservatism, and the second goes to credibility – even if he says he’s conservative today, should you believe him?…

…now we have come to a fork in the road. Ted Cruz has a long record of fighting hard for conservative principles… Donald Trump is a life-long liberal who is currently running as a national socialist…