Chris Frean

🇬🇧 Diplomat previously posted in 🇨🇮 (+ n/r 🇧🇫 🇱🇷 🇳🇪) x 2 either side of 🇵🇰, 🇷🇼 (+ n/r 🇧🇮), 🇭🇷 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇷🇴. Twixing in a personal capacity.

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

Time to depart Korčula and look who had a fishing boat named after him @Kate_Thomson_UK

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

The Ridgeway has changed a bit

[alice morrison @aliceoutthere1]

Good morning from Marrakech!

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

Reposting this as I am on Cursola right now and just drove through Chiara. But I note @ToursDubrovnik has disagreed with @URDailyHistory. I don’t see @DubrovnikTimes getting involved

[Today In History @URDailyHistory]

27 June 1358: The Republic of #Ragusa is founded and centered around the city of Dubrovnik, now part of #Croatia after the Treaty of Zadar forced Venice to cede Dalmatia. It existed until 1808 when #Napoleon conquered it. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/IaHJchlBXx

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

And @westend_one connects them both.

[Euan MacDonald @Euan_MacDonald]

@theiaincameron Both famously feature canals that bisect the country, providing access to water areas that would otherwise be separated by long sailing distances.

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

@omid9 And Ron Atkinson

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

Very nice indeed but I raise you a pošip from Dine on Korčula, @ozclarke

[Oz Clarke @ozclarke]

That’s the way to round off a full-on English Wine Week. At the Pig in the South Downs. Work hard all day with stunning English wines. Sleep well all night. Then wallow in a Pig breakfast with a view like this. And they call it ‘work’!

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

This is the sort of thing which @CharlesCumming might consider for a future plot, Nigel…

[Nigel Gould-Davies @Nigelgd1]

@nexta_tv Fascinating fact: Sergei Ivanov studied English at Ealing College in the late 1970s.

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

@Feargal_Sharkey Linked in req sent re Scotland

[Techsylvania @techsylvania]

Before his website existed, one article was enough for AI to recognize Lawrence Rosenberg's company.

At #Techsylvania2026: in the AI era, media isn't just publicity — it's how investors build a picture of you before you enter the room.

Build the roof while the sun is shining

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

@Feargal_Sharkey Andrew Tyler and his team at Stirling Uni are doing many good things. Happy to link you up. Just sent you a connect req on linked in - can explain more via that if you could accept. I’ve not got your number (apols)

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

On the other hand SPADs are only appointed thanks to links to Ministers. So it’s an occupational hazard. Here today gone tomorrow, as Robin Day once memorably put it. Accept it. Personal experience: they get in the way.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

The thing I hate about these moments most, that good, loyal, talented people take a fall for the failures of their bosses. If you want to understand the govt give them a job. They are older and much wiser than when you last interviewed them…

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

@bancroftian Ah yes road borders must be more interesting...but they had all the EES kit in place?

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

The key here surely is that @omid9 had the genius to go for it. It just never occurred to me

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Yes. Me and George Orwell. Both of us thick as mince.

[And Smith Must Score @AndSmithMustSc1]

I’m holidaying for the next ten days, but have brought @Simon_Hughes__’s #ChasingSalah with me to read on the beach. Also trying to track down Mr Ciolacu for a comment. So far - it’s more than a biography, this, has insights into the politics of #Egypt

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

Does rather suggest you should have won given the catchment to choose from, @BillMcCrimmon. Congrats !!

[homesoffootball 💙 @HOMESofFOOTBALL]

you can't be suggesting they beat them 857-0. It doesn't work like that.

Great post match speech by the country's manager Mark Carney. A big fan of the UK.

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

@MattChorley @JohnBennettBBC fyi

[Jalal Bounouar @BounouarJalal]

@ChrisFrean @robwalkertv @wanderer1982 @UKinMorocco @FitbaMadDad I will be live on BBC Scotland radio one hour before the game to analyse it with former international Willie Miller

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

@BounouarJalal @robwalkertv @wanderer1982 @UKinMorocco @FitbaMadDad I think this will be the tougher one for #Scotland and getting a draw should be the aim - 4 points and a relatively good Goal Difference should probably set them up for Round 2. #McTominay was quiet v #Haiti- expect him to turn up.

[Chris Frean @ChrisFrean]

@robwalkertv @wanderer1982 @BounouarJalal @UKinMorocco @FitbaMadDad another link between Morocco and Scotland ahead of tomorrow. And if you ever consider doing anything near Marrakech you will find Alice from the old country (if she’s not trekking across Saudi with a camel)

[alice morrison @aliceoutthere1]

Good morning from the Atlas Mountains. I'm gearing up for the match tomorrow. Scotland v Morocco!!