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Daily Mail's words of Wisdom

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The Daily Mail used a picture of Norman Wisdom in his 1966 film Press for Time to illustrate an article about how suffragettes made Jessie J proud to be British.

Note to Daily Mail – that is not a picture of a suffragette chained to the railings. That is Norman Wisdom. The Mail's website made the unfortunate mistake in a piece in which celebrities chose what made them proud to be British. Singer Jessie J said: "I celebrate the fact that via the suffragette movement, British women felt empowered to stand up and say: 'We want to be heard. We want a say, we have a right to live equally to men.'" No word, though, on whether she is also a fan of Wisdom's 1966 big screen outing, Press for Time, in which he reprised his drag act as a suffragette. Still, it could have been worse. They could have used a picture of Mr Grimsdale.

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