Artist David Shrigley has dumped 10 tons of old rope in a gallery and stuck a £1 million price tag on it. Nothing new here I hear you say, just another artist trying to fleece some daft rich person. This time, however, Shrigley is having a dig at the stupidity of the contemporary art market and for once I hope someone buys it.

Visit any major gallery across the world and you’ll see something similar. Remember the actual bin that people thought was a piece of art? I once visited Tate Liverpool and overheard a curator trying to convince someone that a house brick was art, just a single house brick, on a plinth.

If someone will pay $6.2 million for a banana taped to a wall with duct tape, then of course there’s plenty more dumb rich people out there that will buy this. It’s not really my business what people do with their money, paying for an idea is one thing, paying for a stupid idea is another. Good luck David Shrigley, I hope you’re laughing all the way to the bank.