What welcome should be afforded to refugees as they're settled in Kroba or Piddington or wherever it might be? Doctor, good morning.

Good morning, Nick.

Look, I can sympathise with people like Kim who feel that their whole communities are being changed without consultation.

And I want to commend Kim.

I think the way that she's going about things is right.

Make a legal case, present evidence.

Don't mobilise a paramilitary gang to intimidate local people or the police.

But you must respectfully, Doctor, accept that they are taking the P with Piddington.

Time for Thought for the Day and the speaker this morning is Dr Krish Kandia, theologian and founder of the Sanctuary Foundation Refugee Charity.

Good morning.

I spare a thought for all those who feel it's been non-stop football recently.

For months, it's been almost impossible to escape the world's most watched sport.

In May, the Premier League run-in drew huge audiences.

In June, the Lionesses qualified for the Women's World Cup.

Into July, the Men's World Cup dominated our screens.

fans of CS Lewis.

And I think one of the first, I think I read them completely out of order because I was growing up in a non-Christian family.

And I just went to, we had a little bookshop after school and you were allowed to kind of find some books and they had some offers.

So I ended up reading Prince Caspian and The Horse and His Boy.

Those were the first two that I read.

Totally out of order.

I didn't know there was a series, right? I just hadn't had the background.

That's

It's pathetic and it's dangerous and it has to stop.

Martin, always a pleasure to see you.

You're looking very suave and cool.

I'm in Bradford Cathedral, apparently the coolest building in the city here.

And yeah, wishing you all the best in this heat as well.

Look, I think it is a problem that we don't know where 50,000 asylum seekers are.

That is a problem.

Both

Tell me about something that you have read or heard or seen this week that has really struck you, inspired you, challenged you.

Well, I've been using a little...

Oh, I've got it here.

Um, it's a little gospel of Matthew for journaling, and, um, I thought, you know, let's reset the year by getting close to Jesus.

And the, the thing that I really noticed, um, even this morning was you've got this picture of Jesus in the Beatitudes, and this- they've been building up to this kind of moment in which Jesus is gonna come on the scene.

You know, we've had John the Baptist, we've had his genealogy, and, and now it is this big moment.

All the crowds have come out to see him, a little bit like you're in, in Mark at the, at the weekend.

Mm