With the cost of living crisis biting unprecedentedly harder (you thought we got rid of that word, didn’t you? And if shoplifting had a Hall of Fame, Cullan Mais’ jersey would be retired. Once one of Britain’s most prolific thieves, he swiped an eye-watering £3 million worth of goods over a decade, all to feed his addiction. No mob bosses or elaborate schemes, just a bleak, very British tale of addiction, poverty, and a system that keeps breaking the same people it claims to fix. What’s underneath is far grittier, far closer to home, and impossible to ignore.