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Britain’s leading podcast-blog for serious political conversation.
Mateless & Bad Teeth is Britain’s leading podcast-blog for people who already know what to think but enjoy hearing it arranged into paragraphs.
Founded during a moment of national confusion, when a politician unexpectedly asked voters to vote, the site exists to explain democracy to those who find it suspicious. Each week, Mateless and Bad Teeth examine the major political events of the day and ask the difficult questions. What does this reveal about Trump? Why are voters doing this to us? Is accountability still accountability when the wrong person benefits from it? And can an election ever truly be legitimate if it interrupts a consensus?
Our mission is simple: to convert obvious political events into layered psychological weather systems. Where others see a by-election, we see grievance theatre. Where others see a campaign, we see a dangerous escalation of public participation. Where others see voters, we see a focus group that has escaped supervision.
We are proudly independent, fiercely analytical, and entirely committed to following the evidence wherever our prior assumptions were already going.
Host biography
Mateless
Mateless is a broadcaster, commentator, and nationally recognised sighing expert. She made her name by asking questions with the tone of someone already disappointed by the answer, and she has since become one of the country’s most reliable interpreters of things that ordinary people appear to have misunderstood by voting for them.
Her specialist subjects include moral weather, democratic unease, strategic eyebrow movement, and the transformation of simple political decisions into complex studies of male fragility. Mateless believes in listening to the public, provided the public first accepts that it is speaking from a place of misinformation, resentment, nostalgia, or unresolved Brexit.
On Mateless & Bad Teeth, she brings a rare combination of certainty and concern. Her method is forensic, in the sense that she arrives after the event, walks around the scene, and declares that the motive was probably populism. She is particularly admired for her ability to ask, “But what does this really tell us?” at precisely the moment when everyone else has already worked out what happened.
Host biography
Bad Teeth
Bad Teeth is a political analyst, former explainer of things, and survivor of a smile that once had its own constituency. His teeth have since been corrected, aligned, polished, and briefed for broadcast, though his arguments retain a certain historical overcrowding.
He specialises in strategic analysis, which means identifying the obvious thing a politician has done and then explaining why it is secretly something else. A by-election becomes a Trumpian manoeuvre. A speech becomes a cry for help. A voter becomes a symptom. His work is guided by one central principle: if the simple explanation helps the wrong person, keep talking until a darker one appears.
On Mateless & Bad Teeth, he provides the longer, heavier paragraphs. He is the programme’s resident expert in momentum, vibes, weakness disguised as strength, strength disguised as weakness, and the constitutional significance of airport interviews. Listeners value his ability to detect American authoritarianism in almost any British event, especially those involving Essex, microphones, or people refusing to apologise on command.
