"There's been a 25% increase in the number of people committing suicide, dying of alcohol, of drugs, since Covid. So this is not a snowflake generation, this is serious, serious mental health issues." ~ Lesley Riddoch #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

It's the return of Question Time tonight, so I'm back on my drawing challenge! I'll draw someone 'notable' (😇,👿 or 😐) from the panel or audience & post it before the programme ends. Here are a few from the end of last series. Enjoy! #JohnDrawsBBCQT BBC Question Time #BBCQT

"You [the previous Tory gov] spent £700m on the Rwanda scheme. During the scheme being in place, 84,000 people crossed the channel, and for £700m your government managed to send back 4 volunteers to Rwanda." Douglas Alexander #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

It's Question Time drawing night tonight!! (Tonight's drawing incoming... 😉) Last week, I drew Douglas Alexander #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

"You're suggesting that by leaving the ECHR, this will solve all the problems. Well, we bought a 'leave everything' arguement off your party before and it didn't quite work out... A lot of people have buyer's remorse." ~ Billy Bragg #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime

It's Question Time again tonight! And so... I will be doing my #JohnDrawsBBCQT challenge! I'll draw someone 'notable' (😇,👿 or 😐) from the panel or audience and post it before the programme ends. Last week, I drew Billy Bragg #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

"[Keir Starmer] is struggling explain to people that the reason you're on a housing waiting list, the NHS is underfunded & your child can't get a special school place is not because of immigrants - it's successive governments" - Aoife Moore #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime

"We've had 14 years of Conservative austerity. They shut our libraries. They shut our community centres. And then to say integration is the problem. How do you expect people to integrate if you've taken away their services?" ~ Zack Polanski #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime

"I work in the public sector very closely with local authorities, the NHS, the police… we've seen years and years of cuts to funding for services for people that need them." "Would you be prepared to pay more taxes to [solve] that?" "Yes." #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime

"I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do now. I find it really shocking." ~ Mariella Frostrup (Mariella Frostrup) #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

I've been messing around with some music ideas lately - just for fun, here's my Taylor Swift x Beastie Boys mashup! I call it "Sabotage It Off". Let me know your thoughts! 🎧🎵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=gBFYje…

"Why did we have an explosion in the number of asylum hotels in the country? Why did we have all this strife and division in communities? It's because the last government effectively gave up on processing asylum claims." ~ Lisa Nandy MP #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT BBC Question Time

"I don't think anyone should take lectures from [a former minister of] a government, that presided over a decade and a half of austerity, about the state of our prisons or any other public service." ~ Paul Nowak #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT BBC Question Time #bbcquestiontime

I've been having a fantastic response to my #JohnDrawsBBCQT portraits lately, with the fabulous Billy Bragg, Aoife Moore, Zack Polanski and Paul Nowak all sharing my recent drawings (on Bluesky / Instagram)... THANK YOU SO MUCH!! ❤ #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

"The Conservative party and Labour party have both performed so badly in govt… that's why people are casting protest votes [for parties] most of which don't have enough serious people & serious ideas to govern a country." - Kenneth Clarke #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime

"One doesn't know how one will behave in a pandemic until one finds oneself in a pandemic... However, I think we were in the very unfortunate position of having Boris Johnson in charge at the time." Zoe Lyons #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

"The 2008 financial crisis really exposed the lack of productivity in the British economy in areas other than the city and financial services. And the truth is that no government has sorted that out since." ~ Sonia Sodha #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime BBC Question Time

"I've seen these boats come ashore in front of me... it's very sad the way that we have very little care for other people. We're all humans at the end of the day, and I find it very sad that we have little compassion." ~ audience member. #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime

"When I listen to politicians talk about the benefit system, it's very clear they don't use it and haven't had very much direct experience with it. The misinformation about how the benefit system works is shocking to me." ~ Captain Haggerty #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime

"I'm very disappointed to hear Donald Trump said that about people like myself, who served in Iraq in 2003. I can promise you I was very close to that front line… and I saw things I don't want to see ever again." ~ Audience member #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT BBC Question Time