Nor,it seems,us involvement with the excesses and fiascos of the pre-crisis boom years.Hence the knighthood for the private equity industry's leading light,Damon Buffini.As head of the Permira group running funds that bought out AA and Birds Eye,Buffini was behind thousands of job cuts while he and colleagues earned millions and paid lower tax rates than their cleaners. Union protesters once famously turne up at the church he was attending with a camel.Rich men may have trouble entering the kingdom of heave,But there will always be a place for them among the best of the nation