Some of my best friends are--

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 she is an articulate and impassioned flag-bearer for a multiculturalism. 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. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a political commentator and journalist.