Apparently the great woman has a new artwork so was invited on to the Today programme to discuss it and how it reflected on Brexit. I should have braced myself.
According to Ms Emin she opposes Brexit because she does not want Britain "demoted to some demented island offshore Europe".
Hmmmm. That would be Britain which is the world's 5th largest economy and the one that has grown, creating record employment since the Brexit vote which folks like Emin warned would, at once, create economic disaster all round. Was Britain "demented " before we joined the EU, in the era of Shakespeare or of Constable and Turner? Or when it stood alone and defeated the evil of fascism more than seventy years ago? So why should it become such a backwater post Brexit?
We have no idea of the terms of our Brexit yet but Ms Emin assures us that she does and she knows that we will become an irrelevant backwater overnight.
If I want someone to come and crap on my bed to make it valuable art I will call Tracey. But for an informed view on global politics and macro-economics is the BBC really sure that she is the most qualified of experts? Should its flagship radio programme really be giving her airtime to spout her views on this matter? Or at least challenging the old bag to justify such a strongly worded statement?