This is the London Review of Books… which has become a youtube channel… with all the inevitability of a can of tomato soup rolling down a staircase.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG1RRmjv760

Their struggle to avoid sounding self-congratulatory exacerbates their idiocy: it would have been better if they could have spoken self-confidently in the first person, "This is how and why I became an intellectual, and this is what it means to me, etc."