Guardianista Tim Dowling has a novel out about a nearly-40 journo (life issues etc. etc.) who discovers an online community dedicated to ridiculing him. It’s being serialized here.

Well, guess what? Nearly-40 BBC reporter Ben Ando is living Dowling’s novel nightmare.

His voiceover on five‘s version of the FBI Files has attracted a mocking student Facebook following. And now Dowling’s book means he can’t even novelize it…