Quick question

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

Can anyone please suggest any news and current affairs discussion forums for my husband. He just got an ipad and now he wants to blog (apparently) and have intelligent conversations. 

[donnashuggy]

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@ten*teeny*tiny*toes wrote:

Thanks Julia and Donna. Will check it out. So the news sites have chat forums?

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Once he joins facebook he can choose to follow news sites of his choice, from what they post he can join in conversations and comment, alternatively he can join groups on facebook to discuss particular concerns or issues

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I thought so Lyndal. And no offense taken. All good !

[jimmy*part4]

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@ten*teeny*tiny*toes wrote:

Not sure I want him here 

Is twitter the place? I dont 'do' twitter at all.

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Wouldn't it be funny to find out he's been here all along....and arguing with you, lol.

[baybizz]

If you want to dicuss current news items I have found the best place is the comments sections of newspaper sites.  There is usually a comments section underneath each article, so you can pick out articles that interest you, and have a good discussion on it afterwards.  Some of these comments sections get 1,000 posts or more in just a day or two, if it's a particularly controversial subject (immigration and migrants is a hot topic on UK sites at present).   If you register a Facebook page (either as yourself or using an alias name) you can often use it to quickly register to use a newpaper comments section.

As I am in the uk, I particularly follow these sites, but there are many others:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

http://www.theguardian.com/uk

http://www.express.co.uk/news

http://www.economist.com

If you go to the Goodle news site for the country of your interest, the latest news items will be linked to the articles' sources, which often have comments sections:

Australia:

https://news.google.com.au/

US:

https://news.google.com/

If you have an interest in US politics, there is a long running often lively eBay discussion thread here (note posts are displayed in reverse time order, unless you are signed in to ebay.com with your settings appropriately set - My Settings/Preferences/General/ + check/tick 'Sort topics by time of most recent post'. This is one of ebay.com's many recent so-called forum design "improvements"...):

http://community.ebay.com/t5/The-Soapbox/OT-Political-Discussion-Please/td-p/1550808

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

Brilliant. Thanks everyone!

I think we'll start him off with a purpose built FB account and he can use the comments section of the news sites.

It's a start.

I realise that I could have worded the OP a bit better and no offense was intended to all the wonderful, intelligent people here