Whether launching an attack on asylum policy or deciding, upon reflection, that accepting her OBE was an offensive homage to the repressive British Empire, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is never far from controversy. Her columns in the Independent are required reading for all concerned with issues of race, asylum and ethnicity in Britain, and her frequent appearances on television and radio proclaim an articulate and impassioned flag-bearer for a multi-culturalism. Some of my best friends are...is a collection of her best journalism from two decades of life at the centre of the most urgent social issue in Britain.