'Unrelated Incidents' - Tom Leonard has a powerful sense of his single identity which is Scottish. However, being Scottish is also to be British and this is where the shared identity is a feature of this poem. This shared identity is in conflict in the poem: the Glasgow dialect/accent vs. BBC Standard English.

The Glaswegian dialect of the poem asserts its Scottishness. The linear presentation on the page, and the mainly lower case writing, is unconventional. This mirrors the idea of an unconventional news broadcast in a Glasgow accent.