@leocg Resolved. Yes the answer to my question was Ghostery blocking trackers for MSN. I whitelisted MSN on Ghostery and that resolved the issue.

I'm not logged on when I follow an MSN news link that opens in another tab even though I'm logged in on home page. This means that whenever I want to comment I have to keep logging on. Never happened with edge (which has so many bugs on Android which is why I'm trying out Opera).