"Whether condemning the Taliban in a column published on 10 September 2001, boycotting Israeli goods, becoming a 'surrendered wife', or deciding, upon reflection, that accepting her MBE was an offensive homage to the repressive British Empire, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is never far from controversy. Her weekly columns in the Independent are required reading for anyone concerned with issues of ethnicity, Islam and family life in Britain. But as this first collection of her award-winning journalism demonstrates, her interests extend as far as Indian cooking, the state of the BBC, Tottenham Hotspur and the Clifton Suspension Bridge."--Jacket.