The Conversation UK, an Open University (OU) backed site funded by CHANSE - Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe, recently reported:

A leaked video of an online meeting between members of the Reform-led Kent county council showed shocking exchanges. There was shouting, swearing and repeated interruptions.

Just like council meetings up and down the country then.

However (haha), the 'shocked' author of the article, Lisa Lazard, an OU professor, sees things differently:

But as a psychologist who studies power, interaction and online meeting dynamics, I see the Reform meeting as a case study in something else – poor leadership, a lack of team trust and collaboration. It suggests an absence of the psychological safety needed to effectively run a council or any other organisation.

Presumably the point of this article was to denigrate 'right wing' autocracy in the form of (female) leader Linden Kemkaran who is quoted as saying:

Because I am not a dictator or an autocrat … I like to hear what everybody thinks. However, when it comes to making the really big decisions … sometimes I will make a decision that might not be liked by everybody in the group but I’m afraid you’re just going to have to fucking suck it up, ok?

If only every council had this kind of leader, perhaps something might get done, instead of having meetings permeated by worries about 'psychological safety'.